[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Who knows what to believe in this thing, but when I see these glowing reports of alleged Ukrainian success my reaction is, “Great, then I guess we can stop sending them money and weapons now, right?”

It's a report of a particular small-unit success. True or not, there's no claim that this particular skirmish was war-changing on its own. Just a very local success.

[Paul R.]

That's a reasonable assessment (hard to find around here.)

Not really directly related, but should be posted "somewhere", I stumbled across this:

Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov campaigned to claim the city of Sevastopol which housed the fleet, and in December 1996 the Russian Federation Council officially endorsed the claim.[6] Spurred by these territorial claims, Ukraine proposed a "special partnership" with NATO in January 1997.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_Treaty_on_the_Status_and_Conditions_of_the_Black_Sea_Fleet