Russian campaign failures stem from political errors
Russia has not yet achieved its main aim of capturing Kyiv and replacing the government and is redefining its objectives
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- Mixed situation on the ground
- Planning and coordination
- Outside the plan
- Logistics: too little, too late
- Morale: not as expected
- Airpower: largely absent
- Politics distort military planning
- Early blunders have lasting effects
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