>Listen, I have Ukrainian/Belarussian family, pls address my arguments and avoid personal attacks like that.

it wasn't a personal attack. It is just a statement of an obvious and important fact wrt. your obviously low level of awareness. And i was right - you have family from that context yet you aren't from that context yourself.

>Yes, according to all data I've seen, e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/russia-ukraine-mil...

>Maybe you have "insider" information we don't?!

it is well known to everybody - 1300 total aircraft out of which only half at best is capable of flying, usually even less than that. So taking 75 to Ukraine already really hits Russian defense capability elsewhere.

>It sucks people have to flee to be safe, but this is not happening for the reasons you think it is. It's happening because Ukraine has only one choice on a fight with Russia: to use urban warfare (people have been calling it protracted war)

it is a very low morale propaganda statement of victim blaming, right from German Nazi playbook.

>because in open combat, the Ukrainian military would've been destroyed much more easily

The frontal combat like in Hostomel airport shows that Ukrainian military is fully capable of strong wins over Russian forces in key strategic battles.

> which means that they know their only defense is to mix with civilians and they know well what's going to happen.

you're using the main point of Russian propaganda - "human shield", "nazis hiding behind regular people". And that is lie. And extremely disgusting morale position - "You're making me to kill your civilians". Again German Nazi come to mind as they practiced that a lot.

I hope you just aren't aware, and not spreading those lies intentionally. You can see the videos on YouTube and Telegram - one of the main tactic by Ukrainian forces right now is to attack the convoys. It is obvious tactic at that stage. If Ukrainian forces were hiding behind civilians the Russian propaganda would have a lot of videos for that. They don't.

>Do you deny the Ukrainian military is hiding in the cities, which is why Russia is attacking the cities?

I definitely deny that. Russia is attacking the cities to take them. And Ukrainians, regular civil Ukrainians including, are fighting back throwing Molotovs and shooting RPG at Russian armor and hunting down Russian soldiers.

>Or you believe that even if Ukrainian forces came out on the field and stayed out of cities, Ukrainian cities would still be bombarded anyway?

this is what happening. Just watch those Harkiv bombing videos or any other Ukrainian city bombing.

>the only cities being attacked so far appear to be the cities where Ukrainian military is intentionally bringing the fighting to (I am sure they don't like to do that either, but they made a choice and will have to live with that choice).

that is clear Russian propaganda and blackmail - stop defending your cities or your people will die. "They made a choice" - how can you even write that, as that is again straight out of German Nazi playbook. Ukrainians definitely didn't bring the fight to Kiev, nor to any other of their cities. It were Russian airstrikes and tanks which brought the fight there.

Honestly, man, it is unbelievable that any reasonable man, like i'd suppose you're would bring in so much clear Russian propaganda which is right out of Nazi playbook.