As I write this, the centre of Kyiv and much of its suburbs are largely untouched. Sirens and alerts punctuate the day.
Everyone here knows that could change, very quickly. By the time you read this, it might have.
Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, has already felt some of the force of the Russian way of war. So have Mariupol and other cities in the east.
Russia answers resistance with firepower. Rather than send in men to fight from house to house and room to room, their military doctrine calls for a bombardment by heavy weapons and from the air to destroy their enemies.
