You don't sacrifice 40% of your best armored formations on a "feint".
We are supposed to believe that every failure, every mistake, or miscalculation by Putin, is really part of some secret master plan that we are all just ignorant of.
Now the Wagner coup/mutiny isn't even a mutiny, it's a secret plan to get Wagner into Belarus so they can attack Kiev again, lol.
And Ukraine is taking all the losses this whole time, and Russia barely got a scratch.
The narrative is completely and thoroughly refuted by the documented losses of equipment on both sides, Russia has lost 3x the number of significant military equipment- and the only category there is parity is air defenses, where losses are equal on both sides.
It is this constant denialism from the Kremlin that led to the mutiny! Get real!