OLD NYT: WHAT GOOD ARE ARMED CIVILIANS AGAINST A MODERN ARMY? New NYT:

The area had been a base for Russian special operations soldiers, or Spetsnaz, and ethnic Chechens fighting on Russia’s side, according to Western military analysts and Ukrainian soldiers.

Here, as elsewhere in the fighting around Kyiv, the Ukrainian military achieved its battlefield success by deploying small, fast-moving units largely on foot that staged ambushes or defended sites with the benefit of local knowledge. Many such units are based in central Kyiv, commuting to the war zone by car.

Possible retort: The Russians don’t have a modern army. But we were told that they did, by the New York Times.