Analysts warn Kyiv could face the same scale of destruction the Chechen capital Grozny, and Aleppo in Syria, faced in recent wars.
Syria's military has also begun recruiting troops from its own ranks to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine with a reported 40,000 soldiers having signed up.The fate, and potential fall, of Kyiv in this war is a source of dread for Ukraine's government under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, city officials like Mayor Vitali Klitschko and residents that are still there, though many are among the 3 million or so Ukrainians that have fled the country.
"I hate to use this term ... but I think the 'Grozny-fication' of Kyiv has begun. And that is something I thought was unimaginable," Max Hess, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told CNBC Tuesday. He warned any battle of Kyiv could be long and drawn out and fought from street to street, with the danger that it is concluded, like in Grozny, with Russia inflicting utter destruction.
The fear for close watchers of Putin is that, as the war drags on, he might resort to more extreme measures to quell Ukraine's resistance, which he is widely believed to have underestimated.
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