The offensive of Russian troops to Kyiv has already been delayed because of the fairly successful defense of the armed forces of the country and the problems of Russians with logistics. But it is possible that on Sunday, Russia groules his forces on the outskirts of Kyiv and try to take the city. BBC writes that such an opinion on the TV channel Sky expressed the retired British General Richard Barronz.
According to General, Russian tanks will surely go to the presidential palace, having met the rigid resistance on the way from not only the Ukrainian military, but also ordinary citizens. The center of Kyiv, Russian appliances will have to break through with the fight, which will certainly lead to significant destruction in the city and the death of civilians.
VSU can try to delay Russians on the entrances to the Ukrainian capital from the North-West, but then the Ukrainian parts will become an easy target for enemy rocket and air strikes.
Another option is to skip Russian tanks into the center, without providing them with active resistance (which will avoid significant victims and destruction), and to hire on the enemy already in the center, where it will be more difficult to coordinate his strength.
The general is confident that to take Kyiv, without turning into ruins a significant part of the city, it is unlikely possible. And it should be perfectly understood in the Russian command.
Another possible strategy of Ukraine is to strike into the rear to the Russians, undermining their communication and supply system, since everything you need to continue the battleship to the strikers are brought from the border, from which technology is 200 km.
According to the military, in a different way, things are on the Eastern Front. In the Kremlin, apparently, it was expected that the eastern regions inhabited mainly by Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine would not have a special resistance to Russian troops and would take them as liberators by opening the corridor to the Black Sea. However, in Moscow they calculated, Barronz believes, and in the east, the promotion of Russians Zabuxed.