Thread by @tomiahonen

My thoughts on Ukraine at 2 week mark of the war

Luckily for freedom and the people of Ukraine, the war is going reasonably well for Ukraine (horribly badly for Russia) in a general sense, after first two weeks.

Slava Ukraini, Heroiam Slava

But this is VERY early, and much..

The Ukrainian leadership was prepared, and has led the early war well. Ukrainian soldiers are fighting bravely & hard

Russian battle plan was ... perhaps too optimistic (at least in North) and bogged down. In South has had very hard time making slow progress.

Russia dominates in air but with heavy air losses, seems to be moving to night flight operations

As the Russian army seems to be getting its ass kicked in numerous battles, they are turning in a cowardly way to bombard civilians instead. That is barbaric
#JeSuisMariupol

The early support from neighbors, Europeans, Americans and rest of world has been promising and numbers reasonably strong

The delivery of much-needed Mig 29 fighter jets (initially from Poland) is a total political mess that has to be resolved fast

I am afraid that this will be a relatively long war, months, possibly years. And as Russia fails to reach military objectives, they will turn to ever worse atrocities towards helpless civilians

We need to support Ukraine as best we can

#IStandWithUkraine #StandWithUkraine