A tidbit from this video, not sure how reliable this information is, but it's plausible enough and both brilliant and very funny if true;
So apparently, the reason Russia wasn't reacting to an Ukrainian troop buildup in Sumy before this offensive was because...
Russia had purposefully created a false narrative that they were planning to attack Sumy, in order to divert Ukrainian troops away from the front. So when they saw Ukraine massing troops in Sumy, they thought "fantastic! They fell for our feint!"
If true, this was just brilliant intelligence judo from Ukraine.
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