Who wants to join a 2022 World Cup Prediction Competition. Not a league, this a knockout competition which will be reduced to just two by the time of the final. This will be the 5th edition following on from: World Cup 2014, Euro 2016, World Cup 2018, and Euro 2020
You'll be predicting half...
You have to remember Putin is a product of the KGB and the secret police apparatus. He will have access to all Western media but will apply the mind of the secret police state to all information from the West, so that the meaning behind the words become more important than just the words...
The problem he has is one all ruthless long time authoritarian leaders have - you remove those who disagree with or question your decisions and are left with those who will just tell you what you want to hear. Information becomes highly filtered because nobody wants to be the bearer of bad...
And if they are leaving there will now be doubt about how safe the bridge is.
There is also the question of Russia trying to work out where Ukraine will strike next - will they go to Melitopol to take advantage of the bottleneck caused by the damaged bridge or is this another ruse to get Russia...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63010107
Sounds all a bit boring reading this, but go to other sources and the accusations seem to revolve around the use of vibrating anal beads
https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/14/the-internet-thinks-a-chess-grandmaster-cheated-using-anal-beads-17370756/
However...
There are some decent Russian vloggeers on youtube worth watching - this one kind of answers your question - the last few minutes are particularly illuminating regarding different perceptions of their media by Russians