That only means that Putin must have planned it that way.
There is no other explanation. Except maybe the obvious one....
Putin made a really bad miscalculation in this and he has no honorable, face saving way to extract himself at this point.
When he doesn’t have arms at home to use, when he can’t manufacture those arms and has to go to rogue nations to obtain them,,,,Putin’s in deep scchitt and he’s desperate.
