Surprise resort trips and empty hotel rooms reveal how Russia’s plan for an easy victory in Ukraine fell apart

Surprise resort trips and empty hotel rooms reveal how Russia’s plan for an easy victory in Ukraine fell apart A destroyed hotel in Kyiv after a Russian missile attack on December 31, 2022. Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images Months before invading, Russia launched an unconventional warfare campaign against Ukraine. The goal was to destabilize Ukraine’s government and undermine its response to the Russian attack. The Kremlin assumed its plan would work and and still launched the invasion when it didn’t. When the Russian military launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, almost everyone thought the…