Since Ukraine is losing the real war they have to try to win the propaganda war at least.
problem for Putin is, he doesn’t have enough troops for continuing ground operations
he’s already lost about 400,000 killed/injured (using the standard 3:1 ratio), and needs to do another mobilization
but he can’t do it before next year’s “election”
expect a lot of young Russians to try to “leave for the holidays” next month, and not bother coming back to be killed