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In today’s newsletter: BBC Monitoring’s Francis Scarr has watched hundreds of hours of Russian state TV. What does it tell us about the Kremlin’s evolving message?

A State TV mouthpiece for the Russian president said the Kremlin is fighting a 'holy war' against Satanists

Putin's propagandists also warned viewers that the Kremlin would need to enforce a new round of mobilisation, because the first tranche of 300,000 was not enough.

Andrey Kartapolov, who is a Russian politician and former army officer, was embroiled in a tense exchange with Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov

A growing list of failings and military defeats in Ukraine have spawned angry outbursts from members of the Russian elite – including lawmakers, media figures and at least one former general – who generally still support Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" but are now actively blaming army chiefs for a…

Russia’s retreat from a key Ukrainian city over the weekend elicited outcry from an unlikely crowd – state-run media outlets that typically speak glowingly about Moscow’s war

The withdrawal of Russian forces from a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine has prompted two powerful allies of President Vladimir Putin to do something rare in modern Russia: publicly ridicule the war machine's top brass.

Vladimir Putin's biggest cheerleaders are outraged over poor decisions to send students, alcoholics, the sick and elderly to the front - claiming it's an inside effort to sabotage war with Ukraine

As Ukrainian troops probe Russian defenses along the entire front and only the Wagner Group mercenaries continue a small-scale offensive operation in the Donetsk region, the initiative in the Russo-Ukrainian war is firmly in the hands of the invaded, not the invader. While that can still change, perhaps more than…