The Guardian, the newspaper of the Liberal Left newspaper in According to the United Kingdom, official London is confident that Russia's special services are tasked with carrying out “coups” in major Ukrainian cities and setting up a puppet leadership in Kiev immediately after the invasion of the country.
that as a result of the attack, Russia will first attack military installations and then surround the capital Kiev and possibly other large cities, and then the FSB saboteurs will try to establish a pro-Russian leadership inside.
plan, but the United Kingdom sees it as a scenario of a central invasion aimed at “regime change” in Ukraine, in which Russia will try to avoid a bloody and risky city war after attacking its neighbor.
At the same time, the article notes that Ukraine is skeptical about the possibility of establishing any pro Russian leadership in Kiev and its other major cities, even in the face of a military invasion, given widespread public hostility to Moscow. Western sources fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin has underestimated the depth of public opinion on Ukraine. “A lot of overly optimistic evaluations reach the Kremlin elite,” one official quoted the publication as saying.