War in Ukraine: Russian soldiers flee – and lose documents about Putin’s attack plans

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Created: 14.05.2022Updated: 05/14/2022 11:03 am

Von: Daniel Dillmann

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In the Ukraine war, the attackers from Russia have to withdraw in places. Sensitive documents fall into the hands of the defense attorneys.

Kyiv – The runs in the north of the country Ukraine war hardly how Wladimir Putin once imagined. The Ukrainian troops managed to get rid of the attackers, especially around Kharkiv Russia fight back. The counter-offensive off Kyiv is said to have even started shelling targets in Russia itself.

That the Ukraine conflict originally planned by the Kremlin was completely different, as evidenced by documents left behind by soldiers from Russia in the small Ukrainian town of Trostyanets. The city is located north-west of Kharkov and was occupied by Russian troops for a month. According to Ukrainian authorities, their own investigators found “sensitive documents belonging to soldiers of the Russian armed forces”. An area of ​​more than 2,000 hectares was searched in the city. The documents found there would provide an insight into Putin’s plans with the Ukraine give.

Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin’s plans surfaced

As the Ukrainian authorities have now announced, according to the plans, Russian ambitions would by no means be limited to eastern Ukraine. Rather, they would prove “that Russia is preparing to conquer the entire territory of Ukraine”. The documents would be evaluated further to obtain more information about the Russian plans of attack in the Ukraine war to collect.

According to the French news portal France24, the Russian military had used the train station in the city of Trostyanets as their headquarters. From there, the military operation in northern Ukraine was organized. The place was also used as a reloading area for tanks and material. After the conquest of Kyiv, the Russian military leadership actually wanted to move to the capital of Ukraine.

Information about Trostianets
administrative area Oblast Sumy (Nord-Ukraine)
population 19,985 residents (as of 2020)
Flow Boromlja

Moscow’s plan with Ukraine: “Putin’s goals have not changed”

But the invasion plans Moscow were not known to be crowned with success. The offensive in the north of the country came to a standstill, the troops around Kyiv withdrew and Vladimir Putin is now concentrating his attacks on the east of the country. In the course of the retreat, the headquarters in Trostyanets was also abandoned.

Ukrainian soldiers in the town of Trostyanets next to a wrecked Russian troop carrier. © Fadel Senna/afp

The authenticity of the documents cannot be independently verified. However, the information is consistent with information available to NATO. “There is no sign that President Putin has given up on his ambitions to control all of Ukraine,” he said Nato-Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in April. Also the USA no other information was available. “We don’t know if Putin’s goals have changed and if he really gave up on Kyiv,” said Avril Haines, deputy director of the CIA. (Daniel Dillman)

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