The HIMARS stuff and the rules of engagement changes are part of the Russian online chatter on Telegram…everything else is either Ritter or both Ritter and online chatter. Both online chatter and Ritter say Russia lost very few troops in the counter attack.
There are an increasing number of graphic images on Telegram that I am viewing of Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilian collaborators being shot in the head…this will be the basis for the change in the rules of engagement. I believe that Putin is very much doing a political dance to affect this change. This dance in some ways reminds me of Bush pre-Iraq war.
Yeah, you know how Western leaders and politics are, and I’m sure the Ukrainians know as well, proof of Ukrainians being bloodthirsty terrorists would lose them the great goodwill they have won with Western voters.
The Ukraine soldiers know the West is their lifeblood both during and after the war and they know their long-term survival depends on NATO membership, summary executions are not likely, but the Russians are famous for it and would casually and eagerly supply the bodies for an FSB propaganda campaign to change the war cause.