Also the fog of war was such that I've seen Sumy (the capital of the Sumy oblast) being still Ukrainian for many weeks on the maps but never heard anything from it and wondered what's going there. And it's because there was just no communication with the besieged city. Which held out with little more than police and civilian guns and captured weapons, and their makeshift weapons that the citizens produced in workshops like here: https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1627733462416252928/ I wish they had the NATO weapons in time, but turned out they really didn't need it to fight off the Russian "elite" tank divisions and help.stop them from driving on Kyiv from the east. The spirit is what it takes.

Also the fog of war was such that I've seen Sumy (the capital of the Sumy oblast) being still Ukrainian for many weeks on the maps but never heard anything from it and wondered what's going there. And it's because there was just no communication with the besieged city. Which held out with little more than police and civilian guns and captured weapons, and their makeshift weapons that the citizens produced in workshops like here: https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1627733462416252928/ I wish they had the NATO weapons in time, but turned out they really didn't need it to fight off the Russian "elite forces". The spirit is what it takes.