By now, the situation in Ukraine has reached the most critical white-hot stage, and a large number of Russian troops are approaching the Ukrainian capital Kiev from different angles. Before launching its final offensive against Kiev, the Russians focused their main campaign on Antonov airfield, just a few dozen kilometers from it. A full seizure of the airfield would cut off the air escape route for the Ukrainian top brass. For this strategic location, Russia and Ukraine are fiercely competing.
At the beginning of the battle, because the Russians and Ukrainians who launched the attack were all airborne troops with light weapons, they did not achieve the expected victory, and the first wave of the offensive was repulsed by the Ukrainian army, and some of the Russian troops were captured. Faced with a sharp turn for the worse, the Russian High Command urgently dispatched troops to mobilize heavily armed troops from the direction of Crimea to the north, while the Belarusian allies moved southward and inserted themselves directly into the flanks of Kiev, so that the whole of Kiev was surrounded by the Russian-Belarusian coalition army.
Sure enough, shortly after the Russian MiG-29 fighter jet and the Ka-52 helicopter gunship joined the battlefield, the Russian army had reversed its disadvantage in the battle at Thetonov airfield, and the two sides entered a tense and fierce tug-of-war.
With the passage of time, the true face of the Ukrainian battlefield has been revealed, and the Russian army, which has a strong military and equipment advantage, has taken the initiative all the way to accurately destroy Ukraine's major high-value military targets. At the same time, the Ukrainian army did not retreat as it had at the beginning of the war, and held a certain degree of resistance in key areas and key points, and the Ukrainian soldiers stationed on Snake Island even died en masse after refusing to surrender.
The Russian army surrounded Kiev, the Russo-Ukrainian war entered the most intense stage, once the Russian army did as the outside world expected to capture the Ukrainian capital within 4 days, then the Zelensky government had only one option to surrender.
For Kiev, Russia is absolutely indispensable, hoping to achieve full control over Kiev in one fell swoop. However, thinking that before the Ukrainian army began to show signs of fierce resistance, Russia also threw its elite forces and heavily armored troops into the Kiev offensive.
According to foreign media reports, Chechen troops, regarded as the elite of the Russian army, gathered on the outskirts of Kiev to serve as commandos for the entire campaign, preparing to fight to the death with the "Nazismized" unit established by Ukraine, the Azov battalion. Chechens have always been known for their bravery and good fighting, and have impressed the world in the two Chechen wars. Today's Chechnya has not only long been subdued by the Russian Federation, but its leader Kadyrov Jr. is even a loyal fan of Putin.
As early as the end of last year, he openly shouted to the outside world: "I will replace Putin and attack Ukraine!" "Now, the Chechens finally have a battlefield to show their martial prowess again."
The purpose of the Russian army's use of Chechen troops is very simple, that is, to give full play to its bravery and good fighting, especially good at street fighting, to eliminate the fierce resistance of ukrainian soldiers, and to clear the way for the subsequent advance of a large number of heavily armored troops.
After full control of the air, Russian aircraft continued to appear over Kiev, and according to videos taken by local citizens, multiple MiG-29s hovered in the sky at a fairly low altitude, seemingly demonstrating at low altitudes. On the other hand, the Russian Army used helicopter groups to quickly penetrate the defense, and the Ka-52 helicopter gunship forcibly broke through the Ukrainian defense line. Under the fierce battle, the Ka-52 helicopter with "no life" was hit by Ukrainian anti-aircraft artillery fire, and the pilot catapulted and parachuted to escape.
Putin is well aware that his ultimate goal is to force Ukraine to "demilitarize" and make Ukraine a complete buffer zone between Russia and NATO, rather than annexing its territory, and under this guiding principle, the Russian military operation must speed up the pace of military operations, force the Kiev government to sign a peace agreement with it in the shortest possible time, and prevent it from falling into the vortex of war like the Soviet Union's attack on Afghanistan.
The only thing Ukraine can do now is to delay as long as possible, so that the Russian offensive will stagnate and it will be difficult to capture Kiev in a short period of time, only then will Russia withstand increasingly high military spending, public pressure and joint Western sanctions. To that end, Ukraine has taken a series of urgent measures.
On February 25, local time, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy announced a general mobilization order, requiring adult men aged 18 to 60 to take up arms to resist foreign "invaders". The Ukrainian defense minister said that due to the tense situation, the procedures for applying for relevant weapons have been simplified, and ordinary people can go to designated places to collect firearms and ammunition as long as they show their Ukrainian passports.
After the United States and NATO expressed their "no troops", Ukraine, which is fighting alone, can only mobilize ordinary people, but under the comprehensive promotion of the modern troops of the Russian army, the promulgation of the general mobilization order is difficult to change the one-sided battlefield situation, and will only increase the casualties of the people in vain.