Why was the Russian army unable to capture Kiev for a long time? The British "Guardian" said that Moscow misjudged the situation and logistics could not keep up, and the former commander of the Estonian Wehrmacht revealed that "Putin is angry".
U.S. officials told the media privately that "Kiev fears falling 96 hours after the start of the war." Russia's military operations began before dawn on the 24th, although the next day it was rumored to have entered the city of Kiev, but until the 27th, the two sides were still fighting fiercely. Why did the Russian army stagnate? The British "Guardian" pointed out that ukraine's stubborn resistance and russian military logistical problems are the main reasons, and Putin may misjudge the situation, causing Russia to now be mired in the mire.
In the four days since the Russian-Ukrainian war, russia has carried out a three-sided attack after the missile offensive, but the substantive progress has been quite limited. The most important capital, Kiev, has been slow to take. While it is too early to discuss the outcome of the two sides, Putin's ambitions are clearly stunted – why?
Luke Harding, the Guardian's special correspondent in Ukraine, mentioned a video that had gone viral on the Internet in the past two days: Three days after Putin announced his invasion of Ukraine, residents of Samui in northeastern Ukraine found a Russian armored vehicle that had broken down. Images taken by the dashcam showed Ukrainians driving past the area parked next to a Russian military vehicle and said to three Russian armored soldiers, "Looks like your car broke down," while the other side said, "We have no fuel."
The Ukrainian who drove by joked that "I can help you tow the car back to Russia," which made the Russian soldier laugh. When the Ukrainian driver, who had taken the video, hit the road again, he found that there were other Russian tanks in front of him that seemed to have broken down. The Guardian reporter Harding said that Putin's army does have an overwhelming advantage over Ukraine, but logistical problems seem to have delayed the progress of the Russian Blitzkrieg.
Harding noted that as the losses increase, so does the kremlin's difficulties. Since Ukraine is unwilling to surrender or lay down its arms in exchange for negotiating opportunities, Russia seems to be in a dilemma. Even if Moscow could eventually take Kiev, the Kremlin would not be able to establish a puppet regime like Donetsk here, because no Ukrainian would succumb to it, and the problems of the coming months and years would remain.
Tras, who was the chief of staff of the Estonian Air Force and the commander of the Wehrmacht and is currently a member of the European Parliament, published a russian intelligence provided by ukraine on Twitter on the 26th. Putin is said to have held a military conference in the Ula Mountains, and he was very unhappy with the Russian generals, because the Russian side thought that the whole war would end in 4 days, but now it seems to have backfired, especially the strategy of lightning attacking Kiev and forcing Zelenskiy to surrender (or establish a puppet regime) has failed.
Due to the shortage of rocket stocks of the Russian army, the military factory is too late to produce because of the shortage of key raw materials and the interruption of the supply chain, and then the Russian army can only "save use". It is estimated that Ukraine can only hold on to the Russian army for 10 days, because there is no money (it is said that the military expenditure is 20 billion US dollars a day), no resources and no weapons, Moscow has to turn from military conflict to diplomatic negotiations. Although the intelligence and information of the wartime period were true and false, the Ukrainians were really reluctant to surrender and have fought to the end.
(Source: Taiwan Media)
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