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Originally Posted by Pointman
It's one of the myths of this war. Russians did accidentally post a victory article on the second day of war, and immediately removed it. It does not imply, that the news agency, let alone Putin, really expected to win in two days. The article could have been accidentally published on the first or seventh day as well. The article Itself does not claim that Russia won in two days, it only claims Russia won. It's also quite a stretch to suggest that Putin leaked his war plans to media beforehand.
The realistic scenario is that once the war started, a staff writer was tasked with writing a victory article. It took him two days to write. Then he accidentally published it. It had nothing to do with Putin's expectations. Then western propaganda ran with it.
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I think you'd have to be pretty naïve to believe the regime mouthpieces weren't given their marching orders prior to the invasion. Now there are no news agencies in Russia, only scripted pablum for the masses like the glory days of the Soviet Union.