Defense experts fear Russian troops will turn to siege tactics, surrounding cities, sealing in residents, and battering and starving them into submission.
in Syria and Chechnya, Blumenthal said. Russia, for example, bombed the Syrian city of Aleppo for weeks in 2016, likely killing hundreds of civilians, according to Human Rights Watch.
"He has no compunction about loss of life to achieve his really warped, cruel goals," Blumenthal said. "In this case, his goal is to rebuild the empire that was the Soviet Union. A siege is likely and may last as long as several weeks. He’ll try to wear down resistance in Kyiv and Kharkiv and other major cities, hitting civilian centers with massive explosives, airstrikes and missiles.
A veteran of the Iraq insurgency, Chiarelli estimated as many as 15% of the population in Baghdad wanted to kill U.S. troops. Kyiv will be far different for Russian troops, who will face near-universal resistance."You're going to move into a city of 3 million people and not one of them is going to come to your aid," he said. "What a lot of people aren't understanding is how combat in urban areas just sucks up manpower.""It's going to get worse," he said.
For now, the United States and Western allies need to continue tightening sanctions and supplying Ukrainian forces, Blumenthal said."They need more anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles," Blumenthal said. "More small arms. More of everything." KYIV, UKRAINE - MARCH 02: A woman sits in a tent as people take shelter in the Dorohozhychi subway station which has has been turned into a bomb shelter on March 02, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces continued their advance on the Ukrainian capital for the seventh day as the country's invasion of its western neighbour goes on. Intense battles are also being waged over Ukraine's other major cities.
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