Russia may be repositioning some of its forces around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to send them to the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian forces have been putting up fierce resistance, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Western intelligence reports that Putin was indeed misled by his top advisers as SOFREP earlier reported. Russian soldiers were also sabotaging their operation and shot down one of their own aircraft.
Russia's refocusing of its military efforts on the Donbas could herald a "longer, more prolonged conflict" as Ukrainian forces put up fierce resistance in the eastern region, a senior US defense offi…