Moscow, apparently, begins to create an information background in advance, justifying the planned retreat and loss of extensive territories in the Kherson region. This conclusion is experts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), analyzing the statements of Russian officials about the state of affairs in the Kherson region.
Obviously, the Russian military command has taken out lessons from previous information and operational failures during the Ukrainian counterattack in the Kharkov region and therefore tries to minimize the consequences of its failures in the reflection of the next successful Ukrainian offensive, analysts believe.
Russian troops also prepare information support for provocation under the fibroid at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. Perhaps the Russian command believes that the destruction of the dam will allow to cover their retreat from the right bank of the Dnieper and prevent or slow down the overcoming of the Ukrainian water barrier.
In their opinion, the Kremlin may try to use the provocation in order to drown out the news about the third humiliating retreat of the Russian troops. Such a provocation could be submitted as another “confirmation” of the Kremlin’s false thesis that Ukraine is a terrorist state, deliberately beating the civilian population, according to the summary.