Putin postponed the date of a full-scale invasion three times, probably because 200,000 invaders are not enough to occupy such a large country as Ukraine. 

The military expert, head of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation, Serhiy Kuzan, told TSN.ua about this interview.

"The Russians were not ready. Still, a 200,000-strong group on our borders is clearly not enough to occupy such a large country with a large number of armed people. These people are enough to work in the "special operation" mode, that is, they wanted to enter, destroy and leave. But for the occupation of the country, their projects on the division of Ukraine - this is not enough," the military expert emphasized. 

Kuzan believes that the Russian special services expected that the Ukrainian authorities would leave Kyiv due to the threat, which would help the occupiers.

However, these plans of the Russian Federation did not work. 

"The Russian special services are used to hybrid methods of warfare, and therefore this was enough for them. That is what happened in 2014 - special information operations, working out Russian influence and blocking state institutions. And then you can understand the logic of the special services. The Russian army in Ukraine should have encouraged the Ukrainian the authorities to flee the country. Then there would be a disorganization of the authorities. But this psychological operation failed, because the authorities and society remained united and no one escaped. The military understood that 200,000 invaders is not enough for the occupation of Ukraine," the expert explained . 

Putin postponed the date of the attack on Ukraine three times: what is known

In an interview with the German publication BILD, the representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Vadym Skibitsky, said that Putin postponed the date of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine three times.

The dictator discussed the date of the invasion several times with the Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov and the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu.

The FSB insisted on the offensive, they were convinced that they had sufficiently prepared for the invasion. 

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