【2022. 2. 27 Ukraine/Russia]
Ukrainian War Report 06: Kiev holds the second night ...
After holding out the first night of the Russian siege, Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, which was continuously attacked by the invading army, once again entered the dead night in the early morning of the 27th. Although military aid from the United States, missiles from Germany, refugee support from Poland, and Swift sanctions against specific Russian banks in the entire Western world have greatly increased the morale of ukrainian soldiers and civilians to "resist Russia"; the Russian army, which suffered heavy casualties and repeated attacks everywhere, expanded its simultaneous attacks against the three cities in the north and southeast from Saturday afternoon to early Sunday morning, and even began to attack nuclear energy facilities, refining storage tanks, and even began to attack nuclear energy facilities, refining storage tanks, Strategic industries such as natural gas pipelines, military intentions seem to be changed from a quick battle to a scorched earth digging retaliatory sabotage?
The siege of the capital, with Kiev as the "Ukrainian-Russian Decisive Battle Zone", was the result of the successful defense of the Ukrainian army on the first day after dawn on the 26th. Russia's airborne troops and special operations forces paid a heavy price for battle losses, but they were unable to break through the street fighting defenses, and the tired combat troops were unable to occupy or even encircle the Kiev metropolitan area. Therefore, since Saturday afternoon, the Ukrainian army has been wiping out the remaining Russian troops in Kiev, and apart from causing damage to the city, killing and wounding civilians, provoking international assistance to Ukraine, and demoralizing itself, the Russian army's first day of offensive in the capital has not yielded any key gains.
According to the eyewitness testimony of Kiev citizens and war correspondents from various countries, entering the capital block on the second day of the siege, the situation was "relatively calm" in the early morning of the 27th, and although the streets of the capital where the curfew was still intermittently sounded by harsh air raid sirens, it was no longer as fierce as the gunfire of the street battles and the explosion of the city skyline that killed the whole night yesterday – or at least not as fiercely as the previous day.
However, the street battle has not been fully launched, does not mean that the threat of the capital siege has been lifted, because since the early morning of the 27th, Russia's air raids and artillery bombardments have continued to do strategic damage, such as the southwest suburbs of Kiev, the previous day was attacked by the Russian airborne army, the previous day was attacked by the Russian airborne army, trying to seize the Ukrainian air base failed vasiliev, an oil storage tank area of the oil refining base, Sunday morning by Russian missile air raids and caused a large explosion, exaggerated skyrocketing fire, pungent smoke, once let the kiev citizens 30 miles away received a "poison gas alarm" Appealed to all people to close their doors and windows and not to go to the streets until dawn to confirm the post-disaster situation.
The attack on Ukrainian nuclear energy facilities and petrochemical oil tanks was not limited to Kiev, on the same night of the 27th, the front line of the Lugansk Oblast in Eastern Ukraine, there were also civilian oil storage tanks that were seriously damaged by Russian rockets; and on the eastern front of Ukraine, the city fortress that carried the Russian mainland westward invasion army - Kharkov - on the 27th, it was reported that the natural gas pipeline was bombed by the Russian army, and the earthquake and mushroom fire cloud of the powerful explosion once shocked the front-line soldiers and civilians that "the Russian army used a tactical nuclear bomb."
In fact, a series of large-scale explosions on the evening of the 27th also showed the frustration and anger of the Russian invasion. Because the energy equipment and oil storage tanks of the Kiev, Kharkov and Kherson generations were originally the local supply points after the priority capture of the Russian army under the expectation of "quick battle and quick decision", and they were also important maintenance equipment (such as urban power supply and heating) for Russia's future occupation order (especially the border between Eastern Ukraine). However, in the current air raids and bombing operations, the russian army's purpose of attack has lost its obvious strategic intentions, as if it were to cause "the greatest harm possible" only for retaliatory destruction.
But could this be a self-directed exercise by the Ukrainian defenders? Also teleologically, this speculation is probably even more unrealistic. Because the area around Vasilikiev, which is still at war, is not currently threatened to fall immediately, there is no need for the Ukrainian army that is stuck in Kharkiv to increase the pressure of defending the city of "thirst".
In view of this, many military observations – especially those who witnessed the logic of Russian bombing in the battlefields of the Syrian civil war – believe that air strikes on oil tanks, gas pipelines, power plants, and nuclear waste storage facilities all show that:
"The Russian generals and the chain of command have lost patience with this 'unexpected bitter battle'... More indiscriminate lethal bombardment aimed at non-military targets and only seeking to destroy shocks will begin soon."
Major international media believe that the reason why the Russian government has rapidly tightened the dissemination of wartime information and deliberately cracked down on the circulation of platforms such as Twitter is to deliberately block or slow down the witness evidence that "Russian troops have suffered heavy casualties in Ukraine". Among them, the most nervous thing for the Russian army is the information on the death and injury of Russian soldiers and the capture of russian soldiers - because even if all walks of life suspect ukraine of exaggerating the "defensive results", the spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, until the afternoon of February 26, still insisted on internal advocacy:
「... The Russians have lost no battle damage at all, and so far there are 0 dead or wounded."
According to civilian sightings in Belarus and front-line footage from the Polish border (Russia deliberately pulled heavy armored forces 5 km to the Belarusian-Polish border in an attempt to intimidate NATO from intervening in the War between Ukraine and Russia), Russian armored forces, although still continuing to move from the north to the south of Belarus, intended to expand the attack on Kiev or reinforce the battle line in the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine (a Russian armored corps was detouring around Sumy and slowly but continuously advancing in the direction of "east of Kiev"), However, the newly reinforced armored forces seem to have been transferred from Siberia, and the armored combat strength is quite old.
In addition, the Russian army in the north, southeast and three places, has been reported "fuel exhaustion" of the serious supply problem, more and more mechanized troops because of logistical disconnection problems, trapped in the snow of Wudong, or anchored in the kiev peripheral roads. Whether it is the public field briefing issued by British and American intelligence agencies, the eyewitness conversations of ukrainian people, or the self-confession of surrendered Russian troops, they have also been repeated and emphasized:
Many Russian troops did not receive proper rest and material replenishment before leaving, and in addition to insufficient fuel and logistics, even the soldiers' rations, drinking water, and even the intelligence road map were not fully accounted for - the Russian army seemed unable to control such a large-scale war in which the whole army participated.
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