and beaches and pushkin, and a long and storied history, is now coming under attack. people are asking, would president putin order his forces to establish a city like kyiv so full of risk because the ukrainians will put up a defense, both soldiers and civilians so full of history, precious history to both russians and ukrainians with every day which goes by, this war becomes more and more terrifying. this is one expert's assessment on russia's military strategy. what we see is 12 days of initial war where russia does not seem to have accomplished their initial gains or the assumption that they have that they could push for the very easily into ukrainian territory, capture or seize lands very quickly and then create a form of fait accompli after the first few days. this has not happened. recent days have seen intense shelling in areas to the north—west of kyiv. tx this is from one of the affected cities — irpin. 2,000 civilians have reportedly been evacuated from there. some residents there were forced to cross a river using planks after a bridge was destroyed. we also know that