If the planning was not poor, then the current situation underlines how poorly the Russian soldiers have been fighting for the last five weeks.
I admire the fortitude of the Ukrainians fighting back against this unprovoked invasion.
The decision to shell to the ground whole towns and cities where many civilians still live display to the world the cowardice of Russian soldiers, who are much better equipped than the Ukrainians.
Russia is a tiger of paper with nuclear claws.
Nobody knows where the front line will be when a treaty is signed - but Russia has lost for a century its rank among the leading nations in the world.
Just another despotic state with a second-class army and an economy surviving through the exportation of natural resources.
I hope that western countries will welcome all the Russian political refugees: they are the elite of this nation and having them working in our economies will be a big plus.
Already 70,000 IT workers have left Russia - and this is only the beginning of this escape from despotism and generalized corruption, a "kleptocracy".