>>46960
>Nearly 20 (minus ~5) days in and they still seem reluctant to go all in.
Their intentions and goals aren't really clear. Maybe on purpose maybe not. Here we got in the news 10+ days back that "Putin's blitzkrieg plan failed!", while do we know he planned a blitzkrieg? No. Not to mention that who would expect anyone go through Ukraine in a week?
What can be heard that Putin is evil dictator that's why he does everything.
Ofc there were articles before, one I referred to in particular, that an analyst said Putin wants southern Ukraine from those people republics to Odessa everything. Judging by the maps we can see that seems to come together. But can we know that is the plan?
There are certain things that could be good for Russia, liek a Belarus type of Ukraine. So guesses, we can have those.

>>46962
The fights are in Mariupol now.
Even if Ukraine can raise troops locally fast, they are untrained and disorganized.