Good luck with it. Kiev is not fighting ragtag militia amateurs but highly trained Russian spetnaz troops. They’re going to be impossible to dislodge.
And urban warfare is always messy. Remember Stalingrad? Hitler’s finest army was ground to pieces in street to street fighting. But Ukraine does not have the Wehrmacht and its special units are not up to the Russian level.
Here again, Putin holds all the cards.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3143897/posts
Earlier this week, Ukraine’s government finally grasped reality and ordered its troops out of Crimea. But by the time of the evacuation order, Russia’s military had already started booting Ukrainian troops from their bases or getting them to switch sides. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky met with Ukrainian Marines in Feodosia as they decided whether to remain loyal to their country or break their oath of allegiance to stay with their families in Crimea...
Actually, the jib is up.
The Russian propaganda ploy that these are “protesters and Russian speaking minorities” will fall if Ukraine takes down the Russian agents inside the govt. buildings.
This is why Russia is crying a river at the UN Security Council. These Russian spetznaz are surounded and highly outnumbered and will die if attacked.
Putin gambled they wont attack. Now pressed, he’s begging the UN for help. Ukrainian officials know they have this gamed and Putin is cornered. Now, they are offering amnesty to the Russian agents who are surrounded.
They should kill every one of them and show their identities to expose Putin’s game.