Russia's strategy was to try to do one quick and decisive push to the capital, to take it over in a week, and they nearly did exactly that. They just got stalled out with fighting at Kiev, and their logistics suck shit and weren't set up (or frankly even capable) of keeping their field army supplied for anything beyond a few days.
to be fair...
Russia's strategy was to try to do one quick and decisive push to the capital, to take it over in a week, and they nearly did exactly that. They just got stalled out with fighting at Kiev, and their logistics suck shit and weren't set up (or frankly even capable) of keeping their field army supplied for anything beyond a few days.