Part-5, Ist stage of Battle.
RA probably had two things in mind, one was to pull out UA forces from its well fortified positons and second was to aim for a very intense and short war by Capturing Kiev and eliminating or capturing Zelensky and his team before they could runaway to Poland or anyother NATO country. The movement of RA was tracked and mobile Tank hunters teams with some of the finest weapons were placed well in advance on the likely approach of the RA. The excellent ISR combined with experienced NATO military advisors and artificial Intelligence based simulations ensured that RA gets a warm welcome whereever they attacked. The convoys were tracked much before they even assembled and killing fields created for them well in advance. While RA was fighting in the open, UA was able to hide its assets effectively from RA due to urban areas all thru the approach of RA columns to Kiev.
RA tried to do what it had trained for for many years-OMG type attack using large Tank +Mech Inf columns. But it had a flaw. These tactics are good for open areas and where the arty has flattened the enemy before the approach of OMGs. In case of Kiev, RA was more interested in saving civilian casualties and ended up taking casualties themselves as the areas ahead of these columns were never subjected to the kind of arty fire as was needed for these columns to proceed without much of a resistance.
Second mistake done by RA was that these columns lacked infantry support which is very very crucial in urban warfare (UW). in UW, the tanks have to support the infantry in clearing up the battle space. Without Infantry support, the tank columns are easy meat and this was proven in the battle for kiev. Every BMP which was hit, resulted in death/injuries to 10+ men as they were in those tin cans. had they been on foot, all would not have died with a single ATGM hit. RA did another blunder, they used heliborne insertions way ahead of its columns which got bogged down without infantry support and so link up with these heliborne troops could not be done in time resulting in their isolation and elimination by UA. We have seen videos of this air assault and how the helos were shot down by MANPADs. RA PROBABLY thought that the Russian speakers in local population will support them but they were eliminated by Neo Nazis much in advance.The large scale civilian killings and bombing of some of the civilian areas close to Kiev was done by UA itself on specific orders of NATO advisors.
Third biggest mistake done by RA was the wrong use of airpower. RA had unlimited supply of cruise missiles but their air power was fighting its own battle. The aircraft never provided close air support to the advancing tank columns, instead they were trying to attack command and communication centers rather than go for destroying oil dumps, weapon depots, power plants, rail heads and critical bridges in the south of Kiev which could have delayed the arrival of more troops to defend Kiev. The logistics infra was left untouched by RA for unknown reasons.
Fourth mistake of RA was that it attacked on nearly entire front of UKR with very small force and their failure to achive the main objective of taking over Kiev, saw to it that even their forces all across the attck lines made little or no progress.
The battle for kiev was a complete failure for RA but it also bled UA and anyone who says that it was a deceptionis probably out of his mind. No one takes such losses for a deception. A deception requires very quick assault and an ever faster withdrawal. That was not the case in the Battle for Kiev.
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Like Russia is going to pay to rebuild Ukraine voluntarily? Who do you think they are? NATO?
