Putin's Kyiv problem: Wounded Ukrainians reveal guerrilla tactics against Russia's army
Created: 2022-03-20 13:54
By: Maximilian Kettenbach
Brovary near Kyiv: Photos of a drone video are said to show heavy losses in a Russian tank convoy.
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Russia's invasion of Kyiv is faltering, and Putin's army appears to be having problems.
A reporter is now describing stories from a Ukrainian hospital.
Munich/Kyiv - Vladimir Putin is resorting to increasingly cruel means in the escalating Ukraine conflict.
According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, Russia is said to have already fired a second hypersonic missile.
This time they reportedly hit a fuel depot in southern Ukraine.
Before that, they apparently destroyed an underground arms depot belonging to the Ukrainian army.
The Kremlin now has to fight the Ukraine war on various fronts.
While Putin's troops caused and continue to cause a humanitarian catastrophe with numerous bombs in Mariupol, rockets keep hitting cities near the Polish border.
Both Odessa and Kyiv are preparing for the Russian army to attack, but the advance is faltering.
Russia's Ukraine war is faltering in front of Kyiv
Instead of the blitzkrieg that Putin had hoped for, Russia now has to mourn numerous victims.
While the Kremlin is mainly silent on the number of deaths on its own side, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyj spoke on Sunday night of 14,000 fallen Russian soldiers.
"That's 14,000 mothers, 14,000 fathers, wives, children, relatives, friends - and you don't notice that?" says Zelenskyj.
Before the weekend, Putin campaigned for everything to go according to plan in the "special operation," as he calls the war.
International experts see it differently.
Putin has changed his strategy, they say.
Instead of a blind advance, he is trying to encircle Kyiv, for example, in order to cut off access routes and starve the civilian population first and foremost.
Ukraine war: Russia and Putin have big problems - because of guerrilla tactics?
But even this is only happening slowly.
Welt
reporter Alfred Hackensberger explained the possible background in a switch from Kiev on Saturday evening.
In a field hospital in Kyiv, wounded Ukrainians told him about their guerrilla tactics: "They said they wait until the Russians come, then surround them from all sides and attack.
They also cut off the supply routes.” The Russians have such big problems, says Hackensberger, “and they don't know how to solve them”.
These stories would also explain where the great supply problems of the Putin army come from.
A tank column has also been in front of Kyiv for days, but is not making any progress.
The slow advance of the Russian troops is due to a series of mistakes, according to Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense of the United States, assessing the current situation on
CNN
.
Accordingly, Russian troops assumed that they would occupy Ukraine much faster.
One of the reasons for this is that the troops are struggling with logistical problems.
Troop morale has also fallen in view of the great resistance in Ukraine.
