Four weeks into Putin’s barbaric attack on his country’s peaceful neighbour, his generals appear to have shifted abruptly from his objective of ‘de-Nazifying’ and disarming Ukraine. Instead of the originally planned blitzkrieg and puppet regime, earlier predicted to be installed within a few days, they now say the idea was always only to ‘liberate’ all of the eastern ethnic-Russian Donbas region.
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