Interesting bit about this war I’d that neither Russia nor Ukraine plays up or even identifies the unit commanders.
This is the precise opposite of US propaganda/journalism going back to the US Civil War. Remember that American armies in the Civil War were accompanied by “embedded” reporters, and these people made Grant, McLellan, etc. household names. Similarly in 1898 (Dewey, Roosevelt), WWI, WWII, etc. Remember Schwarzkopfs daily briefings?
Even enemies were given celebrity. Rommel was a household name among the Allies.
But both sides here emphasize anonymity.
“...Even enemies were given celebrity. Rommel was a household name among the Allies...”
You bring up some interesting facts.
B.H. Liddell Hart makes some points about giving celebrity to commanders. In THE GERMAN GENERALS TALK, he makes a case that the relatively young Rommel and the much older von Rundstedt were given lots of publicity by Hitler/Goebbels while equally important generals were often “soldiers in the shadow”. There was a certain image the Nazis wanted to project and von Manstein, Halder, Kluge, and many others did not present that image.