Updated On: 03 March, 2022 07:41 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
`We did not prepare this, this operation spontaneously,` State Duma member Rifat Shaykhutdinov said on state-controlled Channel One TV on Wednesday

Demonstrators gather to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine outside the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC. Pic/ AFP
A Russian MP has said Moscow started planning for an invasion of Ukraine 12 months ago, BBC reported.
"We did not prepare this, this operation spontaneously," State Duma member Rifat Shaykhutdinov said on state-controlled Channel One TV on Wednesday.