A senior US defense official on Tuesday celebrated that the Ukrainian forces frustrated the advancement of Russian forces to the capital, Kyiv, in Tuesday’s military operation. The US official stated that a combination of Ukrainian resistance, fuel and food shortages momentarily stalled and hampered the movement of massive Russian convoy heading to Kyiv, the country’s capital.
The US official was cited to have stated: “We generally sense that the Russian military movement… the overarching movement on Kyiv, is stalled at this point.
“We do think that some of it has to do with their own sustainment and logistics.
“And we also think that just in general… the Russians themselves are regrouping and rethinking and trying to adjust to the challenges that they’ve had.”
The US official emphasized that a massive Russian force moving north of Kyiv was slowed down in the advancement to Kyiv six days into the war. However, the US ac knowledge that Russian forces still intend to surround and capture Kyiv, Ukraine capital, by siege tactics if necessary.
The US official maintained that the Ukraine military have sustained resistance to the invasion force, noting: “the Russians have not gained control of the skies above the country.
“Nor have the Russians succeeded in taking their first major target, the Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv in the northeast, where the heaviest fighting has taken place.”
Meanwhile, the Russian strike hit government headquarters in Kharkiv on Tuesday. Russian air strike also hit Kyiv Television Tower and disconnected broadcasting, warning residents to vacate the city.
The war situation is already sending strong signals that Ukraine needs help as Russian convoy encroaches Kyiv in the early hours of Wednesday. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Tuesday cried out that Russia is committing war crime in Ukraine.