i'd go further than the correct interpretation that putin's "cease fire" was nothing more than "propaganda."i suggest that the russian attack on kramatorsk on january 7, which russia falsely claimed killed 600 ukrainian soldiers, reveals the expectation that a cease fire would gather ukrainians in a rest area where they could be killed en masse. the headline was preplanned before the event.i point readers to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) as an excellent daily summary of open source information by highly skilled military analysts. they point out that putin is using a "grievance-revenge" framing of russian military activities (e.g., kramatorsk was revenge for the grievance of russians killed in makiivka). the ISW points out that this has only worsened the antagonism toward the kremlin and military from pro-invasion russian commentators, who ask why any "grievance event" was allowed to occur in the first place.

i'd go further than the correct interpretation that putin's "cease fire" was nothing more than "propaganda."i suggest that the russian attack on kramatorsk on january 7, which russia falsely claimed killed 600 ukrainian soldiers, reveals the expectation that a cease fire would gather ukrainians in a rest area where they could be killed en masse. the headline was preplanned before the event.i point readers to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) as an excellent daily summary of open source information by highly skilled military analysts. they point out that putin is using a "grievance-revenge" framing of russian military activities (e.g., kramatorsk was revenge for the grievance of russians killed in makiivka). the ISW points out that this has only worsened the antagonism toward the kremlin and military from pro-invasion russian commentators, who ask why any "grievance event" was allowed to occur in the first place.

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