This tweet from a pro-Ukranian source has posted pictures, below, that allegedly are premeditated plans of the Russian invasion.
Apparently, they were approved on the 18th of January (first picture, in the stamp) and called for a 15 day war to successfully invade the country in 15 days. The tweet's author has been active since 2017, posted 3000 tweets before, and has 17k followers.
I (and I suspect many others) would be interested to know if these are genuine. I don't speak either Russian or Ukranian, do not read Cyrillic, and, as a lifelong pacifist who is deeply saddened by this utter waste of human life and shameful Russian aggression, I know nothing of military operations.
I do however know that NATO has its own symbology for military maps and to aid battle planning, and that the maps shown below are consistent and look to be relatively professionally constructed, at the very least.
Therefore, I would like to ask:
- What do the documents actually say? Does it corroborate the tweet's claim?
- Is there a Russian military symbology, similar to NATO? What do the symbols mean?
- Is this evidence that the whole thing was planned from the start, intended to begin on the 20th of February?
