Some initial probing along the front. Take some prisoners, gather intel.
Yup. I think Putin is growing tired of concealed warfare and is escalating till either he’s harmed his enemies or until they are forced to fight.
War is upon us and we’ve the least able president for it ever.
This event is reminiscent of the Venlo Incident in 1940 on the eve of the German invasion of neutral Netherlands, when the German SD agents engineered the abduction of two British intelligence officers and killed a Dutch officer. The Germans used the Venlo incident as a false pretext for the invasion of the neutral Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venlo_Incident