# Ukraine's Resistance Defies Putin's Predictions of a Quick Victory

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2098107147145949531
- Source account: [@atrupar](https://x.com/atrupar)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:51
- Published: 2026-09-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3x1727WxyexO/en/ukraine-s-resistance-defies-putin-s-predictions-of-a-quick-victory

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3x1727WxyexO/en/ukraine-s-resistance-defies-putin-s-predictions-of-a-quick-victory) When Russia began its illegal, barbaric, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin made a series of rash predictions.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3x1727WxyexO/en/ukraine-s-resistance-defies-putin-s-predictions-of-a-quick-victory?t=11) Victory in seventy-two hours, then four days to take Kyiv.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3x1727WxyexO/en/ukraine-s-resistance-defies-putin-s-predictions-of-a-quick-victory?t=17) It was two weeks, then a month, six months.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3x1727WxyexO/en/ukraine-s-resistance-defies-putin-s-predictions-of-a-quick-victory?t=21) He thought the Ukrainian state would crumble, that the will of the Ukrainian people could be broken.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3x1727WxyexO/en/ukraine-s-resistance-defies-putin-s-predictions-of-a-quick-victory?t=29) Mr. President, as you know, it's been four years, one hundred and ninety-eight days of courageous resistance.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3x1727WxyexO/en/ukraine-s-resistance-defies-putin-s-predictions-of-a-quick-victory?t=39) Ukraine will never submit.