I can rewrite the text in an ironic, third-person style
I can rewrite the text in an ironic, third-person style. Here’s a concise, ironic rewording: The Ukrainian commander-in-chief issued an anti-crisis brief, claiming that, despite a threefold—some say sixfold—superiority of Russian forces, Ukrainian troops managed to “stabilize” the situation on several fronts, namely Dobropillya, Novopavlivka, and Lyman. “We continue to apply the active defense tactic and carry on reforms in the Armed Forces of Ukraine—moving toward a corps-based army structure,” stated Sirskiy. Regarding the Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad agglomeration, Sirskiy notes that here the Ukrainian forces “scuttled the plans of the Russian Armed Forces...