Description: FeaturesDimensions: 8.5 wide x 11 tall88 Pages100 photos and illustrationsRussian Invasion February 2022 Mitzer and Oliemans. On 24 February 2022 eight years after invading the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine and organizing an illegal referendum in support of a subsequent Russian annexation President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Both Western and Russian intelligence services expected the invasion to quickly topple the democratically elected government in Kyiv and with the help of collaborators to overrun the Ukrainian armed forces in a matter of between 3 and 14 days. Early on 24 February the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (VSRF) launched a series of missile and artillery strikes on the main air bases and dozens of other military facilities in Ukraine. Immediately afterwards the VSRF launched a ground invasion with its forces advancing on Kyiv Chernihiv Kharkiv Mariupol Melitopol and Kherson. Although following a build-up that had begun in April 2021 and expected by many the onslaught still came as a major surprise for the Ukrainian government the Ukrainian armed forces and the majority of its allies in the West and also for the mass of officers and other ranks of the VSRF many of whom believed that they were only to participate in exercises. However the deeper the Russians rolled into Ukraine the more resistance they encountered: while some Russian units performed as expected elsewhere whole armies began falling apart when ordered to advance at maximum possible speed without the necessary firepower and logistic support. After suffering catastrophic losses while failing to reach downtown Kyiv and failing to reach and enter Chernihiv and Kharkiv the war in northern and north-eastern Ukraine quickly settled down into a bloody stalemate. In the south the Russians initially advanced at an astonishing rate
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