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is likely to view the first 100 days of his invasion against neighboring Ukraine with enormous disappointment, experts say, after he failed to achieve the goals he set out at the inception of the war on February 24.
"I think you'd be enormously disappointed in terms of what the goals that were set out at the beginning, and the expectations of how soon that could be achieved," said Melvin."One hundred days later, the fighting is bitter, and Russia is making very slow and incremental progress at enormous cost. This isn't really short of a disaster in many ways for Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a conference as part of a summit called to attempt to find a lasting political solution to the civil war in Syria which has claimed in excess of 350 000 lives, at Vahdettin Mansion in Istanbul, on October 27, 2018. Friday, June 3, marks 100 days of Putin's war against Ukraine.
"Putin also seems to have underestimated the West—I think we have had more unity than he expected, the security assistance to Ukraine has been far more and far more effective than he expected, and the sanctions have been far stronger than he expected to weather."
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