[Skybird]

I read that the loss numbers from the second leak that paint a much darker picture from the Russian perspective, caused a furor in a Russian live debate on TV when one of the minions there mentioned these grim numbers. Pro-regime agitators immediately exploded and tried to cut the speaker off.

I wonder if this maybe might be the motive of these "leaks" in case they are in fact a Western psych-op: to bring these numbers to awareness in Russian media and society, packed in a believable package of "compromising" information that "hurt" Wetsern and Ukrainian interest and by that "prove" that the package and so the KIA numbers as well are true...!? Because if you tell the ordinary Russian on the street about these numbers, most will simply not believe them. You must give him a plausible argument why they are true.

If it is so - and I am far from certain - then it might be an effort to destabilise the mood in Russian society, and turn it from now massively pro-war to "against Putin".