This from Bryan Alexander

Many people don't know that Vladimir Putin allowed some Russian bloggers to be "embedded" with the Russian Army in Ukraine, much like Western countries embed journalists with its field armies (thinking the Russian Army would blitzkrieg its way through the Ukrainians, and the bloggers would provide him with a steady stream of pro-Russian, pro-war media content of the army's brilliant campaign). But lately, the pro-war bloggers have been contradicting the official Kremlin media accounts of the war. For example, the state-controlled media (which is all of the Russian media, at this point) reported 63 soldiers were killed in the New Year's Eve missile attack by Ukraine on a Russian barracks at Makiivka, then later changed that to 89 casualties. But even pro-Putin Russian bloggers are disputing that, with some of them reporting up to EIGHT HUNDRED casualties (killed and wounded), and calling for punishment for incompetent Russian field commanders. Embarrassing! Meanwhile, some 500 Russian troops were also killed in Kherson and Crimea by New Year's Eve missile attacks on Russian positions.

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