In today’s newsletter: BBC Monitoring’s Francis Scarr has watched hundreds of hours of Russian state TV. What does it tell us about the Kremlin’s evolving message?
While nationalists initially supported General Sergei Surovikin's retreat from Kherson, he is now under pressure to prove that the withdrawal was right.
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow's forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in favour of the move is now under growing pressure to prove it was worth it.
Russia s leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow s forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in favour of the move is