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In the announcement of the invasion in February 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about “demilitarising” Ukraine entirely, and encouraged Ukrainian soldiers to “take power into their own hands”, it was obvious that the Russian goal was regime change, overthrowing Ukraine’s government and replacing it with one friendly to Russian interests, to kill off any chances of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO or being a rival to Russia.
The Russian military had split their so-called “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine into two phases, the “demilitarisation of Ukraine” and the “liberation of Donbas”, in other words defeating the Ukrainian military and annexing the Pro-Russian seperatist dominated regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, at the start of the conflict it seemed like the Russians were on track to achieve both of these war goals.
Instead, only a few weeks later and less than a month after we released our video, things changed dramatically.