Russian-controlled Nova Kakhovka
Russia is incompetently denying the flooding in Nova Kakhovka, a
Ukrainian town occupied by the Putin forces. The "mayor" says
everything is fine while the background shows flooding. People there,
and in places downstream, report they are cut off and in danger from
the flood.
Ukrainian forces have been infiltrating the south bank of the Dnieper;
perhaps the Putin forces hope they will be drowned. I expect that the
Putin forces are retreating from the flood and that the Ukrainian
forces will advance behind them.
Meanwhile, Russian rebels,
sponsored by Ukraine, seem to have driven
Russian state forces out of the Russian town of Shebekino on the
border by shelling it. The Russian state seems to claim this fighting
is not really happening.
This seems very strange to me; I can't come up with a rational
explanation for it.
Could it be that Prigozhin and Putin are fighting behind the scenes?