Ukrainian troops deployed to Kostyantynivka, the fighting front’s hottest sector, on Tuesday rejected a Kremlin narrative that Russia had conquered the city, with combatants claiming that Russian troops forced to attack the strategic road and logistics hub aren’t so much advancing as being hunted down and killed by drones. Oleksandr Rashevsky, commander of the Ukrainian police special operations infantry unit Liyut, in a Tuesday comment published on the brigade’s official Telegram channel, said that his troops are currently deployed in the city of Kostyantynivka and are successfully holding their ground.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The main attack tactic used by the Russians is infiltration into the urban landscape by groups of one to three men, with the objective of hiding somewhere before Ukrainian drones find them. “Kostyantynivka is one of the key directions for the enemy’s advance to the Kramatorsk-Slovyansk agglomeration. That is why they spare neither forces nor means. We inflict significant losses on them, but the replenishment of personnel is constantly taking place, so the situation remains very tense,” Rashevsky told the Ukrainian news magazine Obozrevatel. “However, we hold our positions, and we are finding the enemy and continuing to destroy him,” he added. Rashevsky’s and other frontline Ukrainian comments reviewed by Kyiv Post sharply contradicted claims made first by Russian General Valery Gerasimov, chief of staff of the Russian Army – that Kremlin forces had captured the Donbas city and scored an important strategic success.