Recently I heard an “expert” offer the opinion that Putin and the Russian Army had made a serious mistake when they organized the “special military operation” (SMO) in the Ukraine the way they did. It would have been far better to just send the army into Lugansk and Donetsk to defend them rather than make an ill-advised dash toward Kiev.
Read more here: https://sonar21.com/the-planning-of-the-ukraine-invasion-from-the-russian-point-of-view-maybe/
