Why Did Russian Troops Pack Parade Uniforms for Kiev?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian troops packed parade uniforms because they planned to capture Kiev in three days and stage a pseudo victory on Independence Square. The soldiers were literally marching to a parade.

Steven Bartlett says state media accidentally released a pre-scheduled victory declaration on day three. Putin never publicly uttered the phrase three days, while top Russian state media figures openly bragged that the conquest would take only a few days. Zelenskyy says they underestimated that Ukraine is not Russia. Putin still looks at Ukraine as part of Russia: march in with an army of hundreds of thousands of men, slam a fist on the table, the president runs, people hide, and the Ukrainian flag is swapped for the Russian flag. When Ukrainian troops hit the tanks, they found parade uniforms in the military vehicles. Refusing to recognize a separate country is what did him in.

Zelenskyy says Putin still does not understand and does not want to admit that Ukraine is a different nation and a different people.