There was never a battle for Kiev.
End of story.
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Exactly, IF it was, powerplants , water, hospitals, internet, rail stations, bridges, etc….all would have been destroyed. They were not, ….if it was, look to Mariupol and other cities that were leveled. Of course western MSM conveniently leaves out the fact Vlad targeted and leveled Neo Nazi centers, towns, barracks.
Vlad has shown much restraint. The question now that he has the Donbass provinces ( as he stated was his primary objective), will he go on to eat Odessa for dinner? Many Russians and Russian politicians want him to liberate Odessa as Katherine the Great founded the city in the early 1700’s….yes Johnny, Ukraine never was a sovereign nation till 1991….
Well said, Delta7.
Now we just sit back and wait to be entertained by The Three Stooges of Free Republic... UMCRevMom, MercyFlush and MarcusmaxiMoe... with their inane spewing of propaganda garbage.
“IF it was, powerplants , water, hospitals, internet, rail stations, bridges, etc….all would have been destroyed. They were not, ….if it was, look to Mariupol and other cities that were leveled.”
Step 1 in that plan is to surround the city with artillery. The Russian’s did that in Mariupol.
The Battle of Kiev was the success of the Ukrainians in destroying those encircling attempts.
The Russians made multiple attempts to secure the perimeter, but each time took heavy casualties and were forced back.