Russia’s surprisingly chaotic attack on Kyiv has seen thousands of troops and hundreds of vehicles stuck on the roads to the north-west for several days – but several military analysts believe Moscow is gradually overcoming its logistics problems and could be able to mount an assault on the capital within days.
The influential Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based thinktank, concluded on Monday evening that Russian forces were now “concentrating in the eastern, north-western and western outskirts of Kyiv” in preparation for an “assault on the capital in the coming 24-96 hours”.
Its success, the thinktank added, would depend in part on how effectively Russian troops had been able to “resupply, reorganise and plan” after an initial invasion that experts believe fell apart due to flawed assumptions – where the military did not, in the first instance, prepare for a strategic ground offensive against a determined and hostile Ukraine.
Russia ‘solving logistics problems’ and could attack Kyiv within days – experts
Influential thinktank concludes that invading army’s flawed assumptions are gradually being overcome
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