Vladimir Putin is primed for further Russian war losses in Ukraine and has been planning how to deliver the humiliating news to the public.
A leaked manual from the Kremlin to its team of propagandists details how mouthpieces should urge people not to "underestimate" the counteroffensive that Ukraine has been planning for months.
The military operation will start in Kherson on the eastern side of the Dnipro River, in which Kyiv's boys will try to rupture Russian lines and force the occupiers from the positions they hold, which have allowed them to bombard Ukraine-controlled Kherson.