With Friday marking one year of the war in Ukraine, the list of assumptions Moscow got wrong is long — and growing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Collective Security Treaty Organization leaders meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, on Nov. 23, 2022. Photo: Karen Minsayan/AFP via Getty Imagesand his military's miscalculations on and off the battlefield.
A year on, Russia's military appears to have learned some lessons and made tactical adjustments, but those changes don't address bigger problems, indicating the Kremlin doesn't appear to fully understand where and how it went wrong, experts say.Putin thought Kyiv would fall.this week.But Russian troops were simply not ready to fight what turned out to be a strong and resilient Ukrainian force. Russia ended up needingPutin bet that the West wouldn't stick with Ukraine.
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