Dugouts? Trench warfare? Sounds like Putin is refighting WWI. If that's north of Kyiv, then from a pic I posted a while back, there's plenty of dammed up water there, maybe some of it could be redirected... Terror bombings of civilians are a great way to galvanize resistance, even if the Russians "win", it will be the Hatfields and McCoys for the next 30 years. As for "Ukraine still has not deployed the Neptune anti-ship missile. They may be waiting to use it, in the event of a Russian amphibious assault on Odesa", this: "There is still a chance for an amphibious operation at scale in support an Odessa investiture (I know how I would use them), but as we see in the video embedded above, as more Russian naval infantry/marines are brought ashore to fill shortages in capability in the Russian land force, there simply won’t be much left at sea to do more than a raid here and there … if that." https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2022/03/amphibious-operations-in-russo.html
Yes, that's the Kyiv Sea, which sits behind a dam. Water elevation is 322 feet above sea level, 15 feet or more above the low-lying parts of the city such as Podil. I read that it contains .89 cubic mile of water. One source says the Russians shot a cruise missile at it. The dam itself and the lock system are massive. One missile would not knock it out. Probably take a tactical nuke.
Dugouts? Trench warfare? Sounds like Putin is refighting WWI. If that's north of Kyiv, then from a pic I posted a while back, there's plenty of dammed up water there, maybe some of it could be redirected... Terror bombings of civilians are a great way to galvanize resistance, even if the Russians "win", it will be the Hatfields and McCoys for the next 30 years. As for "Ukraine still has not deployed the Neptune anti-ship missile. They may be waiting to use it, in the event of a Russian amphibious assault on Odesa", this: "There is still a chance for an amphibious operation at scale in support an Odessa investiture (I know how I would use them), but as we see in the video embedded above, as more Russian naval infantry/marines are brought ashore to fill shortages in capability in the Russian land force, there simply won’t be much left at sea to do more than a raid here and there … if that." https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2022/03/amphibious-operations-in-russo.html
Yes, that's the Kyiv Sea, which sits behind a dam. Water elevation is 322 feet above sea level, 15 feet or more above the low-lying parts of the city such as Podil. I read that it contains .89 cubic mile of water. One source says the Russians shot a cruise missile at it. The dam itself and the lock system are massive. One missile would not knock it out. Probably take a tactical nuke.