The word for the week is echt Deutsch (Pure German): Paukenschlag. If you read military history, you probably know Paukenschlag (Drumbeat) means tanker ships, lots of them, set afire time after time, because the country operating the tankers thought his maritime fuel lines were safe, but that guess turned to be epically wrong.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. This week Ukraine wrote several new pages in naval military history around the Kerch Strait, and punctuated it with domestically developed drones and Russian shadow tankers afire and adrift at sea. But as always the first focus is the front lines. The fighting front The picture is still generally static, but there is accumulating evidence of more Ukrainian offensive activity, and less Russian offensive activity. Northeast Lyman sector: More reports of small Ukrainian gains in direction of the Zherebets River. Russian milbloggers are beginning to complain the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) intends to cut off a chunk of the Russian army, the same way the Russians are trying to lop off Kostyantynivka from Ukrainian control. On Friday the latest announced re-captured village was Lypove. See bottom of this section on how that may have happened. Eastern Kostyantynivka sector: Limited Russian attacks, emphatic Ukrainian reports they are still in the city and still holding positions. On Friday Vladimir Putin and his top general, Valery Gerasimov, claimed the city was conquered by Russia, an easily contradictable lie. Over the first part of the week the contradictions surfaced, here is a run-down on that: