The People's Republic of Rico's Information Ministry and Ministry of Defense seemingly have placed an embargo on news from the attack along the south coast on the town of Westerwalde.
Communique's seem to have downgraded the operation from a full-blown attack to an "armoured reconnaissance" to test enemy defenses.
Unofficial reports from freelance war reporters however tell a different story -- seems that, after it's crushing victory, the PRRAF "Lightning Fist" Brigade has made a rash attack off the march, with sloppy artillery and inadequate infantry support.
Officers were heard making comments along the lines of "We got Jerry on the run! We can just swan into Westerwalde and pick the town like a ripe peach!"
Pictures smuggled out from the front lines tell a different story...
Plumes of smoke from destroyed light PRRAF armour that was part of the "Lightning Fist" Brigade's recon screen, ambushed on the outskirts of Westerwalde by a screen of Shorker Marder tank destroyers.
Abandoned halftracks and dead motorised infantry litter the fields...
Meanhwile, a crewman from a knocked-out armoured scout car makes for the rear... past dead infantry comrades, claimed to be victims of a friendly mortar barrage firing short.
Meanwhile, PRRAF infantry are be pinned down in the rain before Westerwalde -- trying to regroup and salvage something out of what looks like a fiasco.
Spokespeople from the Ministry of Defense have not been available for comment at this point.