Samenvatting

Since the start of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war, the Ukrainian armed forces have -quite unexpectedly- proven to be
adept at withstanding the Russian onslaught on their territory. At the time of writing, the Russian armed forces have
withdrawn from the Ukrainian capital and are making painfully little progress in the east, leaving behind a multitude
of destroyed armored vehicles and the bodies of slain soldiers. Observing the Russian inability to quickly subdue a
numerically inferior opponent, many experts and think tanks have attempted to explain the lack of Russian progress
by referring to the Russian failure to achieve air supremacy and to the low morale and dearth of (low-level) leadership
within the invading army, as well as to the Ukrainian Forces’ ability to perform hit-and-run tactics, in combination with
Ukrainian national solidarity and resistance.