Some say there was a rumor of Putin almost commanding the use of tactical nuclear weapons which triggered an emergency exit of some high ranking bureaucrats and members of the security agencies towards Eastern Russia.Those Ru state planes going east from Moscow turned back mid-flight. Something big is going on:
Pariah state in the making, Russia really degrading itself into just another 3rd world dictatorship.The Russians started to erase the side numbers of the ships in order to complicate the task of the OSINTists and also to prevent Ukraine from establishing a healthy picture at sea.
It's an old cheating tactic.