Now, facing the prospect of protracted ground battles, logistical supply challenges and waning troop and domestic morale, experts say President Putin is likely to unleash even more firepower.
Tuesday, bombarding apartment and government buildings, the main TV tower in Kyiv, the nearby Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial and the main square in the second largest city, Khakiv. A convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks was heading to join the fighting in Kyiv, the capital.
Logistical problems surfaced almost immediately. Military trucks could be seen running out of gas or breaking down. She said it’s unclear what’s happening to the bodies of Russian soldiers who are killed in action, and that could influence morale in the field and back home. There have been reports that fallen Russian soldiers are being cremated.
“They are not using precision weapons from what I’m seeing,” Farkas said of Russian forces in Ukraine. Melinda Haring, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, said Putin clearly underestimated his opponents. “They thought they were going to roll into Kyiv, arrest the Ukrainian elite and ship them back to Moscow,” she said. “They were destroyed.”
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