Residents take part in a military exercise for civilians in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 13. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
The Guardian: West plans to arm resistance if Russian forces occupy Ukraine
Invasion ‘must be seen to fail’, says Boris Johnson, as western allies hold secret talks about how to give military backing to Kyiv
Secret discussions are under way between western allies over how to arm what they expect to be fierce Ukrainian resistance in the event of a Russian invasion that topples the Kyiv government.
Boris Johnson laid bare the case for such a move in a dramatic speech to the Munich security conference where he stated it was in the collective self-interests of the west for any Russian invasion to “fail and be seen to fail”.
He said that any invasion would lead to “a generation of bloodshed and misery” as Ukrainians would fight a fierce campaign to resist Russian forces.
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WNU Editor: Here is an interesting read .... Can Ukrainian Resistance Foil a Russian Victory? (Brian S. Petit, War On The Rocks).
I can see a guerilla movement being active in western Ukraine if they receive weapons and material support from the West. But in the rest of the country such a resistance movement will have problems, especially in regions with large Russian-Ukrainian populations.
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