A step-by-step review of the days of terror and courage in Eastern Europe
In the early hours of February 24, the war was once again a reality in Europe. After weeks of mobilizing troops to the border and arguing that they were just military exercises in the face of growing global alarm,Vladimir Putin gave the order to attack Ukraine by air and land. Behind the implausible excuse of “denazifying” the former Soviet republic was his growing concern about the western turn of the kyiv government and its possible entry into NATO.
As it was, it was tried a preventive invasion that generated in three months thousands of civilian deaths, atrocities and war crimes of all kinds, including the rape of children and women, the forced exodus of more than 6 million people and the destruction of cities and infrastructure.
With the deployment of its military apparatus, Putin hoped to quickly finish off President Volodymyr Zelensky and install a new friendly government in kyiv. He did not expect the fierce Ukrainian resistance that, with Western support, managed to repel the attack and force the withdrawal of the Russian forces, which showed poor preparation and boredom with a war they do not understand.
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One hundred days after the invasion began, what The only thing Putin has gained is enormous international political and economic isolation, a stalled military campaign in eastern Ukraine, and growing documentation of crimes against humanity that expose him to international justice.