{"id":1344905,"date":"2022-02-26T08:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1344905"},"modified":"2022-02-26T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:39:48","slug":"russias-invasion-of-ukraine-not-going-to-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-not-going-to-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Invasion of Ukraine: Not Going to Plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussias-invasion-of-ukraine-not-going-to-plan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1344905&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Russian-Invasion-of-Ukraine.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On the second day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/01\/how-joe-biden-will-punish-russia-for-an-invasion-of-ukraine\/\">Russian invasion<\/a> of Ukraine, Russian troops are encountering significant resistance across Ukraine and have failed to achieve their major objectives. However, Russian forces continue to advance in the south from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/11\/russias-playbook-for-ukraine-another-crimea-land-grab\/\">Crimea<\/a>, the east toward Kharkiv, and north toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/01\/russias-military-plan-for-a-war-on-ukraine-an-attack-on-kyiv\/\">Kyiv<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>War Moves Toward Kyiv<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Antonov airport, which is located 10 miles west of the Ukrainian capital, was captured on Friday. The airport was one of the first targets for the invading Russian forces on the first day of the operation. A Russian air assault took the airport by surprise, but a Ukrainian counterattack with tanks and special operations forces retook it on Thursday night.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/02\/25\/world\/russia-ukraine-war\">Russian troops<\/a>\u00a0coming from Belarus seem to have linked with the airborne troops in the airport, thus\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/us-expects-kyiv-fall-days-ukraine-source-warns-encirclement-1682326\">blocking Kyiv<\/a>\u00a0from the West. The mayor of Kyiv has declared an emergency, and Ukrainian forces are handing out weapons to Ukrainian civilians to fight off the invading Russian troops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian Losses in Ukraine<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claimed that since the first day of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian military had destroyed 80 tanks, ten aircraft, seven helicopters, and 516 armored personnel carriers and vehicles. If accurate, the destruction of so many tanks and armored vehicles means that the U.S.-made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/equipment\/fgm-148-javelin\">FGM-148 Javelin<\/a>\u00a0anti-tank missile and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military-today.com\/missiles\/nlaw.htm\">Next Generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon (NLAW)<\/a>, which the U.K. provided to the Ukrainian military, are put to good use.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the British Ministry of Defense estimates that the invading Russian forces suffered 450 killed in action on the first day of the operation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur assessment, as of this morning, is that Russia has not taken any of its major objectives,\u201d the defence secretary said. In fact it\u2019s behind its hoped-for timetable. They\u2019ve lost over 450 personnel. One of the significant airports they were trying to capture with their elite spetsnaz has failed to be taken and, in fact, the Ukrainians have taken it back. So I think, contrary to great Russian claims and indeed President Putin\u2019s vision that somehow the Ukrainians would be liberated and would be flocking to his cause, he\u2019s got that completely wrong. And the Russian army has failed to deliver on day one its main objective,\u201d British Minister of Defence Ben Wallace\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraine-crisis-russia-has-failed-to-take-any-of-its-major-objectives-and-has-lost-450-personnel-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-says-12550928\">said<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the airport near Kyiv that the Ukrainian forces recaptured after the bold Russian air assault on day one of the invasion seems to have been retaken by a large Russian airborne force.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a televised statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Ukrainian troops to lay down their weapons and surrender and described the Ukrainian government as a \u201cband of drug addicts and neo-Nazis.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had said that he was Russia\u2019s \u201ctarget number 1.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><em>1945\u2019s New Defense and National Security Columnist,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/author\/stavros-atlamazoglou\/\"><em>Stavros Atlamazoglou<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0is a seasoned defense journalist\u00a0specializing in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/soldiers-one-militarys-most-dangerous-161118164.html\">special operations<\/a><em>, a Hellenic Army veteran (national service with the 575th Marine Battalion and Army HQ), and a Johns Hopkins University graduate. His work has been featured in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/delta-force-sas-hunted-iraqi-scud-missiles-during-gulf-war-2021-2\"><em>Business Insider<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandboxx.us\/blog\/author\/stavros\/\"><em>Sandboxx<\/em><\/a><em>, and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/news\/exclusive-the-perilous-state-of-the-special-forces-combat-diver-capability\/\"><em>SOFREP<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops are encountering significant resistance across Ukraine and have failed to achieve their major objectives. 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