A thousand days of the great war – what was the policy of the West – TSN Exclusive

From “Kyiv in three days” to “as long as it takes.” During these three years of full-scale Russian war, Ukrainians learned these phrases of our Western partners by heart. We all well remember how, a week before February 24, 2022, international airlines stopped flights to Ukraine, and Western embassies hurriedly packed up and left, never to return. They were convinced that Russia would capture Ukraine, including the capital, in three days, or at most in a few weeks.

But this did not happen. Kyiv resisted. In the spring of 2022, the defense forces of Ukraine liberated Kyiv region and northern Ukrainian regions, forcing the Russian army to flee, and Western partners to marvel at the resilience and ability of the Ukrainian army to confront the “second army of the world”. Preparing for a successful counteroffensive in November 2022, when we recaptured Kharkiv Oblast and…