Putin’s environment was not informed that he was planning a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. This was announced in an interview with Dmitry Gorodnaya by the journalist-investigator Bellingcat Khrista Grozev.
“Even Lavrov believed to the end that it would be something like threats of war, but really – only” DPR “and” LPR “, – said Christ Grozhev, referring to the words of a source closely familiar with the daughter of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov.