Boris Bondarev said he thought Putin knew the 'Russian army is not as strong as it is reported to be.'
withDeputy Editor Kate Brannen released Thursday, Boris Bondarev said that he didn't think the longtime Russian leader would actually launch his invasion in the first place.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and still controls it to this day, but Ukraine has vowed to retake control of the peninsula in the war. Bondarev added that he also thought that Putin knew that the West"would not refrain from anything" if Russia attacked Ukraine. While the limits on the Russian army's power before the war began may have been clear to Bondarev, this was not the case for many outside of Russia and Putin's circle. Russian troops and equipment had beenfor months before the invasion, and when Putin ultimately launched his attack, some expected his troops to quickly overrun Ukraine.
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