I’ve read that Zelensky has put anti-aircraft guns near or on these areas.
I have no idea what is fact and what is fiction.
Met a woman from Poland today. She thinks both leaders are thugs.
I haven't been following any real-time information like that. Still, I have to ask this question:
If a mobile SAM is being driven through a city as it is being repositioned against an incoming column of infantry and artillery, and it happens to be driven down a street past a hospital, does that count as being "near" those areas?
I can accept if a SAM battery were stationed in the courtyard of a hospital, but I don't see any wreckage in the courtyard, so there was likely no SAM there. But if it happened to be traveling down a nearby street while being redeployed, I don't think that would count as hiding weapons behind a human shield.
It's the nature of those weapons -- fire them and then move them before the enemy gets a lock on its position. I choose not to believe that a SAM was stationed at the hospital, or someone would have seen a launch smoke trail coming out from there.
All that said, so far the Russian military hasn't shown me the skill that they've had in the past. Vehicle columns that run out of gas, recruits who thought they were on a training deployment, senior officers in the front lines getting killed, random shelling. If Putin thought this would be over in a few days and then he got bogged down after crossing the border, his own generals were misrepresenting the state of his army.
I can believe that an army like that is indiscriminately firing out of frustration.
-PJ