A Russian battalion in Balakliia, Kharkiv, sent pleas for more drones in late July as Ukraine ramped up its eastern counter-offensive supported by American weaponry, and some troops were ultimately held back by a software installation, according to a new investigation by Reuters.A trove of thousands of military documents left behind by the defeated Russian forces in Kharkiv, who retreated in mid-September, and obtained by Reuters illuminated their brief regime of torture and later, failing aerial capabilities.By mid-September cities like Balakliia and Izium had been liberated and Russian leadership announced that it was retreating from nearly all of the Kharkiv region and transferring troops.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that within days of the September counteroffensive, Ukraine regained over 1,158 square miles of territory from Russian forces."[It] was a big special disinformation operation," Taras Berezovets, a press officer for Ukraine's special forces told The Guardian."