How hard will it be to defend Ukraine from Russian invasion?

However Mr Watling says Russia already has brokers and operatives on the bottom. He says “there will likely be subversion and unconventional operations in Kyiv to try to destabilise the federal government”. Russia, he provides, may even attempt to encircle cities and use long-range artillery to focus on pockets of resistance after which attempt to use particular forces and brokers to “basically homicide civil society leaders”.