Svitlana Kizilova — Sunday, 6 March 2022, 21:17
The Russian military has amassed a large number of troops in villages and towns near Kyiv, and in the coming days is likely to attempt to occupy the Ukrainian capital.
Source: Adviser to the Minister of the Interior of Ukraine Vadym Denysenko, in a comment on Ukrainian TV
Details: According to Denysenko, a key battle of the war is expected to take place within the next few days.
Quote: "A fairly large amount of Russian [military] equipment and Russian troops are concentrated at the approaches to Kyiv. We understand that the battle for Kyiv is a key battle [which will be fought] in the coming days."
Background: Bellingcat investigative journalist Hristo Grozev said that the Russian invaders in Ukraine were running out of resources to fight. They will be re-supplied eventually, but the logistics of this are complicated.
katiecharm on March 6th, 2022 at 21:17 UTC »
They won’t succeed, but they will kill a lot of innocent Ukrainians, and end up dying by the tens of thousands.
And all for what? Nothing!
GeneReddit123 on March 6th, 2022 at 20:21 UTC »
Ukraine's biggest army units are concentrated in and around Kyiv. I don't see how they can possibly succeed with a direct assault, given that they failed to do so yet even in smaller cities such as Kharkiv, and so far the only cities they captured have been after intense artillery bombardment. That's what that huge Kyiv convoy was supposed to do, but it got stuck/stopped. The other hope is to scare the citizens into submission or foster an internal rebellion, but after what we've seen for the last 10 days, that's not happening anywhere in Ukraine, and least of all Kyiv.
I think it's another of those political, rather than military decisions. Putin ordered the operation to be done in 2 weeks, "or else." 2 weeks expire in 4 days. The sycophant generals send whatever troops they have on a suicide mission in a desperate hope of it somehow succeeding, because they care more about their own asses than about thousands of Russian lives, whose chances to survive a frontal assault on a heavily fortified city without artillery or air support are about as good as of a British soldier going over the top during the First day on the Somme.
Cheap-Eye851 on March 6th, 2022 at 20:08 UTC »
"Attempt" being the key word