Analysis of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

When Russia began its illegal, barbaric, full-scale invasion

of Ukraine,

Vladimir Putin made a series of rash

predictions.

Victory in seventy-two hours,

then four days to take Kyiv.

It was two weeks,

then a month, six months.

He thought the Ukrainian state would crumble, that the

will

of the Ukrainian people could be broken.

Mr. President, as you know,

it's been four years, one hundred and ninety-eight days

of courageous resistance.

Ukraine will never submit.