Ukraine’s leadership should stay in the capital and they had ample time to prepare to resist. They have had seven years to rebuild the #army from the #chaos of 2014 when Ukraine last clashes with #Russia and Russia-backed separatists.
Furthermore, #Ukraine has fought a war in the #Donbas for years. Ukraine needed to be better prepared, but it has also been starved of modern air defense and other needs because western countries were slow to let Ukraine procure the right weapons. This put Ukraine in a difficult position. Russia pretended that Ukraine might one day be a threat to #Moscow, but Moscow’s plan for the #war reveals that Russia believed Ukraine would be a pushover.
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