This source seems pretty sound, 4 phone calls between Russian defence minister and France, Turkey, UK, and USA about this dramatic and horrific situation :
also in MOA comments from comment 125 here:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/ukraine-open-thread-2022-181/comments/page/2/#comments
as well as this in The Saker blog:
We are in bed with some complete nutters but this is totally insane!
cheers