Putin and his regime by going to war in Ukraine have committed “fatal military-political mistakes,” perhaps the most important of which is that they really didn’t plan for a war but rather “a special military operation” or to fight with NATO although that is what has happened, Vladimir Pastukhov says.

The London-based Russian analyst says that Putin and his team thought that “there would not be a real war in Ukraine.” They wanted to frighten NATO but turned out completely........

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