Great Power contentions

[Kagemusha]

I've been watching that penetration too, given the tough resistance that the Ukrainians have put up elsewhere I expect this will be a hell of a hard slog for the Russians. Their sorta ownership of the air will make it hard for Ukraine to redeploy heavy units to contain this pocket but a mix of light and medium forces operating in the suburbs of a major city is difficult for any army to fight against.
I imagine though that supplies of ATGMs and Stingers are running low though their prevalence throughout the country as denied the Russians the ability to rely on low flying close support from gunships and CAS.

I hope that Taiwan takes note of the above and sees that they need high- and low-end capability to have an effect defense as Montmorency has advocated.

It seems Ukrainians are digging in at Kiev and i sincerely hope Russians will get bogged down there. Each day the Ukrainians can hold there can have a huge impact on this whole conflict. What is needed now is something that would act as a rally point. Never mind that this whole thing is an human catastrophe in huge scale and what Ukrainians are experiencing right now is inexcusable by any rhetoric from the Russians. What West needs to do is to keep the handheld Anti Tank and Anti Air capacity flowing into Ukraine by any means necessary. Worst enough being left alone to fight. The Ukrainians should never run out of ordinance to fight with. I sure hope the best for them in this God Awful mess this situation is.