Dan Sabbagh and Isobel Koshiw revisited the battle for Kyiv. Six days before Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, a small group of western intelligence officers were briefed on the Russian military plan. On a quiet table, in an unfashionable chain restaurant in London, an astonishing strategy was recounted: a blitzkrieg to surround Kyiv and Ukraine’s other big cities, followed by a “kill list” operation run by Russian FSB intelligence to eliminate Ukraine’s national and local leaders.