Putin's View on Ukraine

I would be very surprised if these were the kind of forces with which the Russians could launch any kind of major operations. But a little nibble here, a town taken there, that might be within their capabilities. So what's the end game? Well look, I don't think for a minute it's that Putin believes that with a reformed army full of disgruntled reservists he is suddenly going to sweep across Ukraine. He definitely won't be able to with his fallback military, not least because of Ukraine's retraining and rearmament programme. This has been a theme that has recurred so often in Putin's thinking: ultimately if he and his Russia has a strategic advantage, it