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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Russian forces are likely completing preparations for an assault to seize Kyiv"
Main effortKyiv (comprised of three subordinate supporting efforts);
Supporting effort 1Kharkiv;
Supporting effort 1aLuhansk Oblast;
Supporting effort 2Mariupol; and
Supporting effort 3Kherson and advances westward.
Main effortKyiv axis: Russian operations on the Kyiv axis consist of a main effort aimed at encircling the city from the northwest, west, east.
Main effortKyiv axis: Russian operations on the Kyiv axis consist of a main effort aimed at encircling the city from the northwest, west, east.
Russian forces are likely completing preparations for an assault to seize Kyiv from the east and west within the next 24-96 hours. The Russians are setting conditions for the attack by concentrating supplies and reinforcements, attempting to advance and stabilize their lines, and attacking the city with air, artillery, and missile fire likely intended both to demoralize and to damage Kyivs defenders. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on March 6 that the Russians have started accumulating the resources they would need to storm the capital.[1] The General Staff noted that Ukrainian forces retain a coherent defense of the city at this time.[2]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-7
The heroic Ukrainian armed forces are like a rubber band that is getting stretched to its breaking point.
The reason President Zelensky sounds so desperate in his pleas for more assistance is because things simply are that desperate.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)uponit7771
(90,336 posts)... equipment but are afraid it'll fall into Russian hands.
Turkey is flooding them with drones, that's helping a lot better than 100 million dollar jets cause the drones don't need airports just grassy land
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)4139
(1,893 posts)Guessing 2/3 would miss their target, 500 hits would stop the advance
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)Not prevent what Putin is about to do to Kyiv.
Happy Hoosier
(7,308 posts)Otto_Harper
(509 posts)I am assuming that the first thing the Soviets (2.0) will do is a withering artillery bombardment. Very little left standing to defend or even crouch behind.
A flight of A-10 Warthogs would certainly even things up quite a bit.
Happy Hoosier
(7,308 posts)Kyiv is a big city and they do not have the kind of artillery forces the Soviet army had in 1945. They can do a lot of damage though. But to take the city and hold it, they have to enter it. That's where they get bloodied. Hopefully.
sky_masterson
(416 posts)from behind. Since their attention and guns are facing toward the city
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)obamanut2012
(26,072 posts)And who is funded by the militaryindustrial complex. It may be right, but I would filter this through a barrel of salt first. And, her husband works for American Enterprise Institute.
localroger
(3,626 posts)Where OP sees large areas of land under Russian control, others see thin columns of Russian military hardware with their supply chains stretched to the breaking point and inadequate resupply of resources like food and fuel. Moreover these columns haven't advanced significantly in days, reinforcing the conjecture that if they try for much more they may break entirely and open themselves to being overrun by UKR defenders.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)For EU leaders and President Biden. Most people will not take a long or nuanced view of this situation. They will only see the rubble and the bodies. And they'll say, why didn't the world prevent this?
I might be one of those people. I'm not going to vote for Republicans but it will make me disappointed in the world.
But, hey, I'm constantly disappointed in the world. I expect most people on DU are as well.