Events in the Kherson region make the Russian information space very nervous.
Therefore, regardless of why Russia published the day before and then promptly deleted information about the transfer of troops in this region, the reaction of Russians indicates that any mention of changes in the Kherson region gives rise to almost instantaneous “neuralgia” in the information space .
“Obviously, the words redeployment or regrouping , like the whole concept as a whole, are very exciting for Russians after the Russian Ministry of Defense called the retreat from the Kharkov region a regrouping in September 2022,” analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggest.
In any case, experts are confident that the Russian media space has still not decided on a single rhetorical line regarding the events on the eastern bank of the Dnieper.
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Why did the Russian Federation publish and delete a statement about regrouping in the Kherson region?
American analysts have several versions of why the Russians took such actions.
For example, ISW believes that deleted messages about Russian regrouping on the eastern shore of the Kherson region may indicate real discussions in the highest echelons of the Russian military command , perhaps prematurely leaked into the information space before official disclosure by the Russian military.
– Russian RBC reported that the original reports from TASS and RIA Novosti said that the commander of the joint Russian group of forces in Ukraine (although the name was not mentioned, but we are talking about the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov) agreed with the arguments of the command of the Dnepr group (he was also not named Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky) and ordered the redeployment of troops for offensive operations in other directions, ISW notes.
The Institute does not exclude the study of war and the version of the Center for National Resistance about the information operation of the Russian military command .
ISW also believes that state media could be ordered to publish and then deny the reports so that Ukrainian forces would underestimate Russian forces on the eastern shore of the Kherson region.
At the same time, experts do not believe that any external source on behalf of the Russian Ministry of Defense could convey to Russian state media information about the “regrouping” of Russian troops on the left bank of the Kherson region.
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American analysts consider it very unlikely that an outsider on behalf of the Russian Ministry of Defense could mislead the Russian state media , because the latter are closely connected with government agencies, including the Russian Ministry of Defense.
What is known about the alleged statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the transfer of troops
On November 13, the Russian Ministry of Defense published and then deleted messages about “the transfer of Russian troops to more advantageous positions east of the Dnieper.”
Statements from the Ministry of Defense were disseminated by Russian media, and then immediately began to refute them.
What is the Ukrainian side’s opinion on this?
The head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine, Natalya Gumenyuk, said that the Russians announced their “withdrawal” from the left bank of the Kherson region in order to provoke a reaction from the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
However, this statement, notes Natalya Gumenyuk, only provoked panic among the occupation forces.
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