WAR BROKE OUT BETWEEN RUSSIA- UKRAINE ,WHAT ARE CHANCES OF NATO-UKRAINE VICTORY?

(The Quiver) : Finally war broke between Russia and Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a  military operation in Ukraine  on Thursday with explosions heard across the country.

“I have made the decision of a military operation,”  Putin said in a surprise television announcement that sparked immediate condemnation from US President Joe Biden and other Western leaders, and sent global financial markets into turmoil.

Shortly after the announcement, explosions were heard  in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and several other cities, according to AFP correspondents.

Ukrainian border guards reported being under attack along the Russian and Belarusian frontiers. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Facebook post that Russia was attacking his country’s “military infrastructure”, but urged citizens not to panic and vowed victory.

Western nations said ahead of Thursday’s operation Russia had amassed 150,000 troops in combat formations on Ukraine’s borders with Russia, Belarus and Russian-occupied Crimea and on warships in the Black Sea. Ukraine has around 200,000 military personnel, and could boost that with up to 250,000 reservists. 

But Ukraine has received advanced anti-tank weapons and some drones from NATO members. More have been promised as the allies try to deter a Russian attack or at least make it costly.

Moscow said on Thursday that it destroyed Ukrainian airbases and air defences, moments after the military claimed it shot down five Russian planes and one helicopter in Luhansk region.

Time will show how much worst can be scenario of this war as the beginning has already started with severe destruction.