Title : "The smaller Ukrainian force was vastly underestimated. 'It’s really been kind of astonishing, in the sort of the cynicism, the stupidity with which the operation was carried out.'"
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"The smaller Ukrainian force was vastly underestimated. 'It’s really been kind of astonishing, in the sort of the cynicism, the stupidity with which the operation was carried out.'"
From "How Kyiv Has Withstood Russia’s Attacks" (NYT). The internal quote is from Scott Boston, senior defense analyst at RAND Corporation.
At the link, the text is accompanied by excellent graphics — including "street view" maps. Highly informative.
Some excerpts:
Russian leadership was deluded that Ukraine would collapse at the first sign of fighting, and that President Volodymyr Zelensky would flee, said Nick Reynolds, a military analyst at the Royal United Services Institute....
“You need to be good at this,” said Scott Boston, an analyst at RAND who studies the Russian military and land warfare. “And I don’t think I have any real evidence that Russia has trained to do large-scale urban warfare.”...
Even in places where Russians got closer, they had few major routes to enter the city. That predictability is part of what makes a well-defended city so difficult to capture.... In a fight outside of Brovary last month, seen in footage released by Ukrainian forces, Russian tanks were sitting ducks, ambushed and destroyed by the Ukrainian artillery fire and anti-tank missiles....
Ukrainians appeared to further constrain the Russian advance by blowing up bridges and dams, flooding areas north of Kyiv.
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