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> do we know he planned a blitzkrieg? No.
I think we can safely assume that Russia did plan this war to go fast.
War is a cost, and it's not just cash. People are dying, Russia relations with other countries are damaged, citizens might get angry, oligarchs might get angry, all the other higher ups in Russia might get angry, economic sanctions etc. etc. The sooner fighting stops the sooner Putin can focus on dealing with those things.
I think it's a pretty normal military doctrine since probably ancient times that you want to win the war as fast as possible. Now in the past that might not be possible to wrap things up in a week, but we've been building all those fancy APCs and IFVs and helicopters and planes and that certainly wasnt so we can have soldiers sitting faster in a trench warfare.
Then we had reports of Russian military running out of fuel at day 2 or 3 or something, Russian soldiers walking up to civilians or police stations and asking for gas. It's like whoever planned this really expected things to go swimmingly and that locals will be eager to help the attacking force and welcome them as liberators.