Jeroen HabetsCaptivating report on run up to #InvasionOfUkraine /#RussianUkrainianWar
"A war foretold:how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them"
With captivating #whatif s:
If #Zelenskyy had indeed declared martial law / #Europe given more supplies before, would Ukraine have been better prepared, perhaps an invasion even averted, or would panic and millions that might have fled have weakened Ukraine's response leading to its quick demise?
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them