Ukraine was preparing for full-scale war with Russia 5 months before it started
Ukrainian troops in Donbas began preparations for Russia's full-scale invasion as early as the autumn of 2021. Source: Oleksandr Pavliuk, Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who was in charge of the Joint Forces Operation in Donbas at the time of the outbreak of the full-scale war, in an interview with Radio Liberty Quote: "There were all the signs that we would encounter the enemy, and not only from the occupied part of Donbas, where the Luhansk People's Republic and