To answer these questions and many others, Jacques Baud relies on information from Western intelligence services and American documents that were leaked in April 2023. After the best-sellers Putin, the Master of the Game? and Operation Z, whose analytical work has been praised worldwide, the author returns to the war in Ukraine by analyzing the facts and nothing but the facts. Whether one is for or against the position of Ukraine, one is condemned to return to the field of operations and to analyze what is happening there. This is the only way to find a path to peace, not by relying on illusions.