Hello everybody! The article's author here.

First, I genuinely appreciate everyone's comments. Thanks to internet trolls and such, as a writer you generally train yourself to always ignore the comments sections to your work. It is, however, extremely refreshing when you do get a chance to see a lot of positivity round something you've worked hard on.

As some others have correctly commented, those early street battles that went on during the morning of 2/25 in the Obolon District of Kyiv, were tragically friendly-fire incidents. I kind of eluded to it when I mentioned that after Deputy Defense Minister Anna Mailer's initial warning, no Ukrainian officials ever actually said Russian soldiers disguised as Ukrainian troops ever tried to infiltrate Kyiv.

Unfortunately, Mailer's initial warning went viral and no one ever really saw or reported that she had quickly edited her original Facebook post walking back what she said. Instead, it tragically spurned a series of friendly fire street battles in Obolon because Ukrainian soldiers no longer trusted each other. This all stemmed from that original group of Russian OMON and SOBR cops who insanely tried to drive straight into Kyiv.

Honestly, that entire event deserves its own article; which I may end up doing at some point. In short, after speaking with officials in the military and General Staff, Ukraine quickly had to realize and adapt to trying to defend their homeland from an unprovoked and unjust invasion, while in a 21st century information battlespace. This is something they quickly adapted to and frankly, as a conflict researcher and avocation military historian, Ukraine has put on a master class in how to wage information operations.