Here is how Cristopher Miller describes the “operation” in his book “The War Came to Us”. If you disregard some gloating over the Russian mistakes, on the whole the picture of the war is accurate:

“By mid-March it became clear that Russia’s invasion was for the Kremlin, in fact, a fuck-up of historic proportions.

As the troops rolled into Ukraine, relaxed, sitting on top their armored vehicles, they had been told that they’d meet little or no resistance and would be welcomed as liberators by the Ukrainians. The Russians had no maps to help guide them to Kiev or they used old maps of the city from 1989, which showed them roads that were no longer there, terrain that had long been altered with new towns and infrastructure. They carried little food and no spare clothing items except parade uniforms they believed they’d be wearing as they marched victoriously down Khreshchatyk Street in a few days’ time. And they over-extended their supply lines.

Putin’s troops never adapted to the situation, and instead repeated the same failing tactics over and over, with the same devastating results. They took wrong turns; they tried to punch-throw Ukrainian defenses with huge armored columns, including one more than 40 miles long; and they ran themselves into traps, where Ukrainian troops and volunteer fighters armed with Javelins and NLAWs easily picked them off.’

[Miller, 2023: 297]

The special military operation showed what Russian commentators, philosophers, literary figures and philologists call key concepts of Russian life and culture: irresponsibility and slovenly work at all the levels.

It is only with a passage of time that the Russians regained their victorious spirit that came down on Ukrainians with a vengeance.

Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri)   

                     The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer), also called the Röhm purge (German: Der Röhm-Putsch) or Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis' paramilitary organization, known colloquially as "Brownshirts". Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called Röhm Putsch.

Bandar-log

The term “Bandar-log” had already entered political discourse by this time as a direct allusion to the monkey people described by Rudyard Kipling.

The Bandar-log feature most prominently in the story "Kaa's Hunting", where their scatterbrained anarchy causes them to be treated as pariahs by the rest of the jungle. Their foolish and chattering ways are illustrated by their slogan:

“We are great. We are free. We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true.”

Bandar-log communicate almost entirely through the repetition of other animals' speech.

In Hindi, Bandar means "monkey" and log means "people" – hence the term simply refers to "monkey people". The term has also since come to refer to "anybody of irresponsible chatterers."

The striking phonological similarity between the name of the leader of Ukrainian nationalists “Bandera” and the name for the monkey people “Bandar-log” made the latter go immediately viral as a derisive allusion. It is not surprising that Ukrainian Bandar-log came to be associated with the extreme right of Ukrainian voters but who behave as if they were the ones who represented the overwhelming majority and who in reality represented the most unpleasant, intolerant, arrogant and aggressive species among the citizens of Ukraine. 

“I walk a thin line,” Kapustin says, disputing the neo-Nazi label and noting, almost teasingly, that he doesn’t put swastikas on any of the T-shirts he flogs, as though that proves anything.

The militias don’t act in Russia on the direct orders of Kyiv, and their actions just go to show “the Kremlin is once again not in control of the situation in Russia.”

Maybe so, but it depends on how you define “under orders.”

Protesters on the route to Westminster could also be heard chanting "Rishi Sunak, shame on you" and the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free".

Earlier this week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman urged police chiefs to consider whether the slogan should be interpreted as an "expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world", possibly making it a "racially aggravated" public order offence in some contexts.

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Putin thinks he can disorient Biden and shape his decision-making in a way that is beneficial to Russia, rather than the U.S. Biden is easily flustered by Putin’s actions, having called him a "killer," "murderous dictator," "war criminal," "butcher," "pure thug," and the like. Putin perceives Biden’s losing his cool as a sign of helplessness. Putin knows he can get to Biden.

As early as August 2023 senior leadership at NATO, at least informally, suggested that the emergence of a downsized New Ukraine would be welcomed.  On November 1, 2023 in an interview and accompanying article, General Valery Zaluzhny, then head of the Ukraine military high command, acknowledged the harsh military reality — stalemate. The Ukrainian political process of adjusting to a new reality is unfolding among the “troika” of the Rada (parliament), Presidency, and military high command — so an “October surprise” may be brewing.  The unilateral declaration of a New Ukraine will reflect the troika’s consensus.

According to Victoria "Fuck the EU!" Nuland, it is the USA that at the price of $5 bln toppled Kiev's elected government.  The underlined sentence is a case of EVENT IRONY against the backdrop of Nuland's admission.

The west’s justified objective in Ukraine was to help foil Putin’s attempt to topple Kyiv’s elected government. 
But as the conflict in Ukraine has reached predictable stalemate, Nato’s strategy has lost all coherence. This is the moment when such wars run out of control. For two years now, western leaders have polished their macho images at home by visiting and goading Kyiv’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to seek total victory with their help. It was Boris Johnson’s favourite pledge, but then his voters were merely paying for it, not dying. France’s Emmanuel Macron has at least suggested sending troops.

Boris Johnson tells Putin to 'get the hell out of Ukraine' and says Trump WON'T pull the plug on funding if elected because he 'won't want to be the president who surrendered to Russia'

He insisted it was not viable to hold talks with Putin, asking: 'Is it possible to negotiate with a crocodile if your foot is in its mouth?'