Ukraine Territory Taken Over By Russian Forces
Almost a week into Russian Forces commencing their military operations in Ukraine and the newly formed Republics, Moscow’s forces have made major advances in border regions in the north, east and south of the country — but faced slower progress than expected toward the capital, Kyiv.
Russian forces attacked key cities from several sides on Tuesday, scaling up their bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in the northeast. They also broke through a heavily contested port city in the south, and have likely encircled several others.
Russia has also stepped up its attacks on Kyiv, with rockets hitting a Holocaust memorial site in the city on Tuesday. A missile also hit a private maternity ward near the city, though everybody had evacuated.
Meanwhile, a 40-mile long Russian convoy of tanks, armored vehicles and towed artillery is heading toward the Ukrainian capital, according to satellite images from Maxar Technologies.
It is very clear from the Operation that Russian Forces are taking all precautions to avoid civilian casualties. They have avoided all out blitzkrieg which they are fully capable of. Carpet bombing and massed artillery firing have been avoided. Instead precision missiles are being used to take out purely military targets. However in this kind of war, in spite of all precautions, it is very difficult to avoid collateral civilian damages.
Things will be clear if this operation is compared with American Coalition attack on Iraq and Afghanistan and the kind of civilian casualties inflicted on the hapless civil population.
