How Ukraine’s Defense at Hostomel Airport Crushed Russia’s Blitzkrieg Plan

When Russia invaded Ukraine, its primary objective was not just territorial expansion—it was the outright elimination of Ukraine’s independent government. Russian leader Vladimir Putin even claimed that the bloodshed caused by Russia’s invasion is “fully and wholly” the responsibility of “the ruling Ukrainian regime” in his address on February 24, 2022.

As Ukraine’s political and military heart, Kyiv was the ultimate target. Historically, the fall of a nation’s capital has often signaled the collapse of its government and the end of organized defense. Russia’s plan closely mirrored the Blitzkrieg tactics of Nazi Germany in 1940, when swift mechanized assaults and airborne operations overwhelmed France in just weeks.

The Kremlin sought to replicate this rapid strike: overthrow Kyiv’s leadership, install a pro-Russian administration, and force Ukraine into submission before any resistance could take shape.

This made Hostomel Airport the single most critical target in the opening hours of the war. Located just 25 kilometers from Kyiv, it was one of the few airfields in Ukraine capable of handling large military transport aircraft. By securing it, Moscow planned to flood the area with paratroopers, armored vehicles, and reinforcements flown in from Russia and Belarus.

This airborne invasion would have bypassed Ukraine’s ground defenses, allowing Russian forces to launch a direct assault on the capital—potentially ending the war in days, rather than months or years.

But Ukrainian forces disrupted Russia’s plans and prevented a swift takeover. How did they do it?

In mid-January 2022, CIA Director William Burns made a clandestine visit to Kyiv to personally brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on U.S. intelligence assessments of Russia’s imminent invasion. The briefing revealed that Moscow’s military strategy hinged on a rapid assault on Kyiv, with Hostomel Airport as a critical target.

Even the US admits there are US biolabs in Ukraine. Gee, wonder why the US locates its biolabs in Ukraine, eh

The same reason there are many bio labs in EVERY city in the US. For instance EVERY major university operates bio labs.

There are NO bio-weapons labs in Ukraine. Its amazing how ignorant people cannot understand the difference between bio labs and bio-weapons labs.

No sign of Ukraine bioweapons labs says disarmament chief, after further Russian claims

The UN is not aware of any biological weapons programme being conducted in Ukraine, the Organization’s disarmament chief told the Security Council once more on Friday, responding to fresh allegations by the Russian Federation, that it had evidence to the contrary.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114272

1.) Russia is losing because they still have not seized Mount Olympus Mons on Mars.

—Change or create your own / new measures of success or failure. In Russia’s case, redefine what their goals and objectives are regards seizing “all” of Ukraine (never their goal - they were interested in the ethnic Russian areas, a port city and industrial area in the East). Don’t mention NATO membership, the cause of the war and which the Russians blocked.

2.) Russia is losing because they have suffered 144,000,000 casualties.

—Use some make belief statistics to show Ukraine is doing a “great job.” This amount to a participation award while in reality they are losing.

3.) If we don’t stop the Russians in Ukraine, they will keep taking more and more because they want to rebuild their Soviet empire.

—Not even remotely possible. As in, not a 1:1,000,000 chance. Russia would have to attack NATO, the world’s most powerful military alliance, 3 nuclear powers, an alliance which in manpower outmans them MORE than 3:1 even now after Russia partially mobilized for war. An alliance which has about 5 times the amount in military aged males, more than 10 times the economic volume and manufacturing base... This argument was so stupid that it was humorous! But it sounded good to some and actually got traction (usually by those that already have an anti-Russian bias).

4.) Putin is a madman, mentally ill, and KGB officer.

—And President Bush H was DIRECTOR of the CIA. These arguments always only get applied to others in a negative way. When it’s out guys, well of course it becomes an argument of how “experienced” and “qualified” they are for the position. As to the madman talk, that is a simple non-argargunwnt intended to end all discussion. And finally the epitomy of irony, Putin being mentally ill!!! You cannot make this up!!! You have a US President that forgets the names of his cabinet members, gets lost at the White House, needs guided off stage, falls up the stairs repeatedly, mumbels and stumbles all over the place repeatedly, gives extended blank stairs into the camera, and is reluctant to give a real interview where he might have to answer unscripted questions; a President who shits his pants at the Vatican and actually does a leg lift before a British royal and let’s one rip: https://nypost.com/2021/11/07/camilla-parker-bowles-keeps-talking-about-biden-fart-at-cop26/. But then our media and TV pundints pontificate about the mental state of Putin, and these things were happening concurrently! LOL

5.) If all else fails, use fallacies and rhetoric.

—Anyone with half a brain knows that when people do this, it basically amounts to an admission that they have no argument or lost the argument. This is the “last line of defense” for those that cannot win an argument using facts and reason. That’s when “Putin puppet, propaganda, war of aggression, and unprovoked” come into play.

How about this as a summary: we caused a war through NATO expansion, threatening Russia and ignoring their repeated pleas for us to reconsider our move. We likely hoped that Russia would aquiscience and accept a situation we the US would NEVER accept ourselves (Panama Canal most recently, Historically: Cuban missile crisis, Grenada).

We basically gambled and used a bunch of Cold War cliches and historically based but no longer relevant anti-Russian bias in our society to construct fictitious arguments in support of a war which never was necessary for our “national security.”

We caused this war by putting Russia in an untenable security position, in fact it was so bad and obvious, that one should ask oneself if we didn’t do this intentionally, i.e. have the Euros flip half the bill while Ukraine bleeds out but weakens Russia on a world stage where we stand to benefit: Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Iraq, Other African nations.

we caused a war through NATO expansion

Putin decided to invade Ukraine.

Ukraine is not a member of NATO.

NATO countries including the UK, France and Germany were reluctant to accept Ukraine as a member of NATO due to their issues with corruption.

Also, they know that Ukraine is right there on Russia's porch.

Ukraine had a long way to go in meeting the requirements to become a NATO member before Putin invaded in 2022.

NATO knew that they were not going to get away with it as long as Putin was in charge of Russia so they wouldn't dare.

If Putin's successor, perhaps that may be the case. But that's 10-15 years away from now.

No, that’s not our purpose.

Read the US Constitution.

That’s the purpose. That’s what this nation is based on, the contract between the people and our government.

And yes, we today have become almost indistinguishable from the Russians.

The only difference is that people like you rationalize what we do, you make excuses for occupation, attacks, coups, installing puppet regimes, backing totalitarian and oppressive regimes, torture, mass censorship and government propaganda programs, kidnapping, targeted assassinations of US citizens abroad without a trial, government Intel agencies meddling in our own national elections (dangerous stuff if you care to have real elections), massive government secrecy where the people don’t even have a right to know what their government does with their money and in their name (USAID is just one latest example)!

BTW, who do you think created that monster China? Who was it that ran to them in the 70s and started building factories like mad because of cheap labor, no EPA, less taxes, no labor laws? The Germans? The French? The evil Russians? Nope, it was Nixon who opened that door!!!

Go look at where everything in your local Walmart or Target, much at your GM dealership, most of what is at a Best Buy, on Amazon (>70%) was made.

And isn’t it funny how we don’t want to see or hear any evil regards China? Why is that? Could it be because that’s where much of our manufacturing base is, becuse they hold onto US securities, they are a major market today, and have a large military and Intel capability?

China a nation with forced abortions, a one child policy until recent, and we don’t raise the human rights flag! LOL. Where they oppress Christians and Muslims, have a million Uyhgers in internment camps, execute more people than any other nation on earth, have mass censorship and a one party system, the communist party. And where has our great American anti-communist ferver been regards China?

Was Bush H all about dealing with that evil Chinese communism? What about Clinton, did he deal with that Chinese communism? Obama? Biden?

Money and military might does the walking, and the rest of your talking means little.

And you never make any arguments.

You just let some flag waiving feelings based cliche ridden trash go, and think that’s some profound pontificating.

There was a difference in 1986. We were the good guys, they were the bad guys.

Today that has become muddy, in part because of us, we have become a lot like them (in the Cold War) in our MO (torture, kidnapping, assassinations, censorship, government propaganda...), our willingness to use force and expansionism.

It’s also because of them. They are no longer the Soviets and made moves towards a more open and democratic society. Like it or not, before this war, Russia had a LOWER government participation in their GDP compared to us! Russia is no longer an atheist nation, you can travel there, own private property or start a business. You just choose to live in a world long past
because this cliche world makes things easy for you and feels good.

But it’s frankly, dumb (the outdated Russian cliche). When you hold onto a flat earth world view after we have conclusive proof the world is round, you have other reasons than logic or common sense for holding onto that world view.

You just talk in cliche (Cold War imagery), mention feel good slogans (sovereignty and democracy) which mean nothing, and grab whatever headline of the day you think supports your cause (Ghost of Kiev) no matter how ridiculous it is. There is zero actual analysis.

Going back to the Iraq war circa the 2004 time era, you had people, especially overseas saying things like this: “Bush oil cowboy.” They too thought they were making an argument. No they weren’t, they just sound stupid and if the same people were to reread their stuff today, it would be embarrassing.

Try making an argument, because stringing together nonsense like “unprovoked, Soviet, KGB, communist, aggression,” isn’t. In fact, that’s not even thinking. It’s just repeating junk.

Frankly, I won’t shed a tear if NATO fails and goes away at this point. This war proves that it is no more than a politically minded and typical government burocracy wanting to expand in budget, manpower and scope. That they are willing to play hand in glove with the political leadership in order to achieve what is the best outcome for the burocracy.

This conflict (a war we caused), Libya as well as Syria and Serbia proved that this organization is willing to be offensive, that the organization is no longer geographically tied to the Atlantic region. NATO is a desperate hammer looking for its nail post Cold War.

Ukraine finally is their nail, sadly it’s a war outside of NATO (where we stuck our nose into a civil war essentially), which we caused (not really defensive), and we’re losing with respect to the political and military objectives.

We shall see how this impacts NATO long term. I see that our non-propagandist Hollywood is already throwing pro-NATO plugs into some of their movies: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13357520/ (That is telling in how the brass sees things, regards attitudes towards NATO long term)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment_complex.

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