Right after reading your post, and reading a few of the sites you linked to, I went and watched the 11:00 news. The whole situation in Russia was not even mentioned. It was like nothing ever happened. I flipped over to a Spanish language station and they were covering the events in Russia. Granted, they didn't have much new information I hadn't already seen, but at least they were reporting something.

As for the significance of this news, I will withhold judgement until I have more information. Is this mis-or dis- information as Podrock suspects? Maybe so, its hard to tell. Is Kyiv or Kremlin behind this, is Wagner doing it? Is this designed to slow down the Ukrainian offensive? Or to facilitate it? Could this just be a way of distracting us from some deeper plan? Right now I don't know, but I smell a rat.

"Feint within a feint?" I like that.