Putin will not permit the democratically elected, senior office holders to live. Otherwise, your sentiments are practical under the circumstances.
"After the air and artillery end and the ground war really starts, I think Kyiv falls in just a few days," one former senior U.S. intelligence officer told Newsweek.
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Exclusive: US Expects Kyiv to Fall in Days as Ukraine Source Warns of Encirclement
BY
NAVEED JAMALI ,
DAVID BRENNAN AND
TOM O'CONNOR ON 2/24/22 AT 11:05 AM
"...A statement from Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine's presidential chief of staff, and shared with
Newsweek by Ukraine's embassy in Washington outlined what Kyiv suspected were Moscow's goals and the likelihood of Russian forces seizing government buildings in major cities.
"The Office of the President of Ukraine believes the Russian federation has two tactical goals – to seize territories and attack the legitimate political leadership of Ukraine in order to spread chaos and install a marionette government that would sign a peace deal on bilateral relations with Russia," Podolyak said. "The enemy attempts to destabilize [the] situation in large cities, in particular Kharkiv and Kyiv. The probability exists the Russian armed forces will seize the government quarters.".."
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Russian forces besieged the capital, Grozny, killing thousands, and soon took control of the entire breakaway republic. While a guerrilla war ...
By Max Boot
Today at 12:43 p.m. EST
“There are no certainties in war.” – Winston Churchill
"I am impatient with both those who insist that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a stroke of “
genius” and those who insist it is a
historic blunder. The truth is we don’t know which it will be. That will depend on what the people of Ukraine — and the nations of the West — do to resist this war of aggression..."