Established upfront: conventional warfare, especially one where the news media is working down stream from a regime that is among the most effective manipulators of information in the past 80 years, is phenomenally subject to the vicissitudes of Berg‘s 18th law.
But at the end of the first day, it appeared that the Ukrainians were holding back most of the Russian advances (other than the attack north out of Crimea), had held off or perhaps defeated at least one of the airborne assaults on air fields around Kiev, and had managed to disperse their Air Force and decentralized enough of their command and control that Russian attempts at a decapitation attack weren’t nearly successful enough to leave the Ukrainians floundering and rudderless.
Other, highly unconfirmed reports indicated that at least one Ukrainian Air Force pilot had become an ace, with 3-6 kills in one day of fighting. So far, the story has all the hallmarks of an urban legend, and probably war time underdog propaganda.
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