Reaction to good news from the front is depressing. It seems that for a part of fellow citizens the victories of Ukraine (because these are victories not of the authorities, not of the army, but of the whole of Ukraine) are undesirable. According to the principle “I should be in their place!”
Zrada's counteroffensive
This is not a hypothesis. I'm looking at a slice of the information field. On July 10, Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov told The Times in an interview that President Volodymyr Zelensky had ordered the liberation of the southern coast. At that moment, the thesis that Ukraine would liberate Kherson began to be accentuated.
Here, an organized crowd of kind people began to pour out all possible epithets on the topic “zrada! They revealed the plans of our army! Why announce an offensive! But what, the military doesn't know that!” And so on. It was obviously nonsense, but in a way it was useful.
In parallel, the plot developed “it is not known where Western weapons go, 30% reach the front!” In the promotion of which the same kind people joyfully participated. But this was already a pure Russian narrative, which was patriotically promoted on the basis of hatred for the military-political leadership.
Unhealthy conspiracy theory
After the sudden movement in the Kharkiv region, kind people were somewhat confused. For before they directly accused the authorities of the fact that the Russians transferred troops from east to south. And that's how it turned out. And what to do now?
Moreover, the movement was largely provided by the “lost” weapons. Which hints that not all plans of the command should be public.
But just a few days later, the inspirers of kind people gathered their thoughts and gave birth to a new task: the military was preparing an offensive in the Kharkov region secretly (!!!) from the political leadership. They secretly accumulated reserves, secretly concentrated several brigades, plus the GUR, MTR, plus the police, the guards … And everything is secret! So that no one in Kyiv guesses and interferes!
The categorical unwillingness to admit that the military-political leadership of Ukraine can successfully play complex combinations, organize cover operations, and so on – this is understandable. Wild, but understandable. There is a certain cannibalistic logic in this.
But pumping a variation of the thesis “the enemy is in Kyiv!” – this is a direct game into the hands of Russia and a repetition of what happened in 2014-2018.
A clear dependence is fixed by the hardware method: critical theses alternate with Russian ones. There is no difference. I do not presume to judge whether this is due to an oversight in a state of passion or deliberately, but this is repeated regularly. It is necessary somehow more carefully.
