Ukraine Part II

Consequences

War Memorial, Kiev 2017, Photo by Author

Last week we examined the current state of the Russian armed forces currently pre-positioned around Ukraine, what their capabilities are, and what a conventional invasion of Ukraine would look like if it were to be launched in the near future. In short, a broad pincer movement from Belarus and Russia with mechanized infantry and armor units would encircle the Ukrainian capital Kyiv; approximately 40,000 secondary…