After the past two days of defending Kyiv, the Russian army is still 30 kilometers away from the center of Kyiv. It is clear that February 24th to 28th is the fifth day. Putin’s plan to blitz Ukraine and quickly achieve the goal has been bankruptcy.
A detachment of the Russian army on February 26th once broke into the urban area of Kyiv but was driven back after failing to enter the city center. The tenacious will of the Ukrainian military and civilians to defend the homeland and the country exceeded Putin’s expectations.
At the same time, he also overestimated the efficiency of the Russian army. As of February 27, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army lost 4,300 people, 27 fighters, 26 helicopters, 146 tanks, and 706 armored personnel carriers.
Some people also questioned whether the results of the Ukrainian army were exaggerated. Both sides of the war usually exaggerated to a certain extent, but the Russian battle report was more ambiguous.
On February 27, it said that more than 900 military facilities in Ukraine were destroyed, and 8 fighter planes were shot down, etc. …but lack of the so-called record of large-scale capture of Ukrainian soldiers and how many enemy troops were killed or wounded.
The winning side usually has a large number of prisoners of war, but Russia does not. In a simple comparison, the Russian army should lose more than Ukraine should have.
After two days of defending Kyiv, the morale of the Ukrainian side has shaken, and assistance from all quarters came pouring in. In addition to the United Kingdom and the United States, which are the countries that provide the most aid to Ukraine, other European countries have also acted in succession to provide Ukraine with funds or direct assistance with weapons and ammunition.
Turkey assisted Ukraine with drones and claimed to have performed well in actual combat; Germany finally broke the sway and provided Ukraine with 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 “Stinger” individual surface-to-air missiles. A rare European country has finally begun to provide Ukraine with heavy weapons. Germany has sent 14 armored vehicles to Ukraine on Saturday via Poland, along with an undisclosed number of howitzers.
There are also unconfirmed reports that fighter jets supplied by Europe to Ukraine have also arrived in Ukraine. In addition, the foreign volunteers have also joined in teams to military equipment support. France has made it clear that Ukrainian soldiers in the Foreign Legion can return home with a complete set of equipment.
There are foreign volunteers from the United States, Britain, and Georgia in Kyiv and Ukraine. The establishment of an “international column” is in the process of incorporating foreign volunteers into the battle sequence and unified dispatch. The core sources of the volunteers are retired soldiers from Western countries and former special forces personnel. These people have high combat literacy.
Military aside, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s gritty resistance brought Europe together quickly, and President Zelensky said in his farewell speech to European leaders last week, “This may be the last time I’ll see you.” It gave European leaders a deep stimulus and made them feel guilty.
At the weekend, EU countries finally reached a consensus and agreed to kick Russia out of the SWIFT system of the International Society for Financial Telecommunication, which is the World Bank networking system, and currently the only part of Russia. Banks, but probably the biggest ones. It is a financial ex-communication order.
The SWIFT system includes 11,000 financial institutions worldwide, including 300 Russian banks. But it is not yet known which Russian’s banks will be kicked out, but the list will be made clear in the next few days. But U.S. officials revealed that the targets include at least the top 10 banks in Russia, whose assets account for 80% of the total of Russia’s, and the list still needs to be discussed with European countries, so this step took. Simply put, Russia is a big player North Korea has become an isolated financial country of the world.
There is no way to network settlement with banks in other countries. Russia’s international trade cannot be complete, and it can only maintain trading with the hostile camps in the West. The latest news is that Zelensky has just signed the application to join the EU, and the EU’s debate process on the admission of Ukraine to the EU will start soon.
What is the United Nations doing? Because Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council and has veto power, it is impossible to pass UN sanctions resolutions. This mechanism does not work and can only be made according to its position. The brothers in China, Russia and Latin America, the West, and those who sympathize with Ukraine are on the other side, which is a Cold War pattern.
