1. One impact from Putin's pal the DFG's constant lies and gasslighting is that Russian propaganda has not been able to get traction. First, @WHNSC has handled the intel surgically and used it in a way that none of the usual Kremlin lies has gotten enough oxygen to long survive.
2. That doesn't mean that the Kremlin propaganda mills are not still at work, it just means that even in Kremlin infiltrated @Foxnews they are getting insufficient play to be effective. Truth is always the best weapon against propaganda.
3. A look a the headlines in Russian media is instructive. The working-class Izvestia continues to pump out Kremlin lies of fictious Ukrainian atrocities and will not doubt help keep the public thirsting for revenge. 
4. The more subtle Tass reporting focuses on the earlier calls for mobilization coming from the Kremlin stooges in Donbas but don't add the call to evacuate all Russians from Donbas that seems to me totally insane. Self ethnic cleansing is something I would not have predicted.
5. The more sophisticated @kommersant appears to get at the real play for Lavrov and Putin and evidence that, as I have said for some time, they are, in fact, just engaged in theatrics.
6. Finally the English language Moscow Times appears to be clinging to the last vestiges of normal journalism that exist in Putin's Russia.
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