Cards on the table I haven't seen anything from the Russians substantiating "Kiev in 3 days" only western talking heads dooming about the invasion at the start, it just seems like this broadly accepted idea, now, that Russia took a half-assed shot at Kiev for all the marbles then pulled it at the last minute

I lean towards the feint theory side but admit it could just be cope, it just strikes me as wild to consider taking a capital as some sort of win war button, thats not how it works