My read of the situation, which is guaranteed faulty in large or small details, is that the Russian plan was never to fully invest and conquer Ukraine.
It has always looked to me as if it's a very limited military operation with a set of goals that have already largely been reached.
One thing to pay attention to. Notice that every time Russia calls a halt, like they recently did to hold the referendums in the Russian majority areas they occupy, all a sudden the msm starts pouring out stories about how the brave brave Ukraine military stopped the Russians in their tracks!
The only real consistently true "rule of thumb" for info from that AO (area of operations) is that EVERYTHING the msm says or prints is a lie.
My read of the situation, which is guaranteed faulty in large or small details, is that the Russian plan was never to fully invest and conquer Ukraine.
It has always looked to me as if it's a very limited military operation with a set of goals that have already largely been reached.
One thing to pay attention to. Notice that every time Russia calls a halt, like they recently did to hold the referendums in the Russian majority areas they occupy, all a sudden the msm starts pouring out stories about how the brave brave Ukraine military stopped the Russians in their tracks!
The only real consistently true "rule of thumb" for info from that AO (area of operations) is that EVERYTHING the msm says or prints is a lie.