I was feeling masochistic so I browsed reddit logo for a while, and remembered that all pro-Ukraine folks seem to take this as a fact. I remember trying to look into this and not finding any evidence, and angry libs were not exactly forthcoming with sources themselves.

So besides the initial feint towards Kyiv (which AFAIK is circumstantial at best) was there ever any evidence pointing towards some Russian plan to eventually annex the entirety of Ukraine?

  • CabanoTavares
    18·
    6 months ago

    There is not. Even with the initial offensive on Kyiv it’s more likely that the objective was a change in Ukraine’s goverment. A new government that would recognize the independence of Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republic and their eventual annexation to Russia, and would guarantee they would not join Nato.

    Which is basically what is gonna happen anyway but now with hundreds of thousands of deaths in a pointless war.