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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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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...se-arrest.html
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Putin 'has placed the head of the FSB's foreign intelligence branch under house arrest because he is furious at security services for failing to warn him' that Ukraine could fiercely resist invasion
The FSB security service allegedly told Putin Ukraine was weak, riddled with neo-Nazi groups, and would give up easily if he invaded
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Tells you everything you need to know about Putin's mindset of this war.
Yes he thought he could win Kyiv in 2 days.
He boasted about able to take Kyiv easily as early as 2014.
https://time.com/3259699/putin-boast-kiev-2-weeks/