Remember the Azovstal bunkers full of NATO generals? Well, no one does now, but it was playing on Russian TV at the time as one of the excuses why it took too months to occupy Mariupol and why they had to bomb it all to shit in the process.
You're wrong here. Despite the fact that noone had seen any "nato general" through captive on Azovstal, russian in general still believe in existence of such generals.
The reason why they don't see them for russian is easy:
"Our NOVIOPS already exchanged generals behind our backs"