Russian information campaigns at the start of the invasion relied on the increased assumption that Russia had " These information operations were intended to mislead the West and Ukraine that any transfers of military equipment would be irrelevant, since Ukraine would not be able to withstand the upcoming fast-paced operations and would be vulnerable to Russian attack, the latest report from the Institute for the Study of War says..

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For example, in early March 2022, the Kremlin threatened that Russia would view continued Western military aid to Ukraine as legitimate military targets.. However, the Russians failed to demonstrate the dynamic targeting capabilities needed to strike Western vehicles moving into and through Ukraine during the first year of the war, and resorted to using their precision-guided weapons to strike stationary civilian energy infrastructure across Ukraine..

The Kremlin has reformulated its information operations to overstate the importance of every tactical offensive since Russia pulled out of the Kyiv region and redeployed to the Donbass in the spring and summer of 2022.. The narrative corrected the idea of \u200b\u200bRussian military power from large-scale offensive operations that were no longer possible to achieve stable and significant successes on the front lines..

This narrative was intended to demoralize Ukrainians and convince the West of Ukraine's inability to counter an allegedly superior force that made possible Russia's costly progress, which eventually culminated in the entire theater without achieving decisive strategic effects..

The exaggeration of minor victories allowed the Kremlin to explain the slow pace of advance to a domestic audience that was driven by? expectation of rapid Russian success in Ukraine.

Both versions of the narrative—the alleged blitzkrieg at the start of the war and the impression of unrestrained, albeit slow, progress during its second phase—were intended to partially deter Western aid.. They sought to reinforce the perception of Russian power to invade and downplay Ukraine's successful resistance in the hope that the West would withdraw its support for Ukraine's efforts to win the war.. In this they failed..