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News analysis: War in Ukraine - Battle for Kyiv
Putin's plan for rapid invasion has not gone as expected
Events this week are set to show goal of swift Ukrainian collapse is no longer achievable
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No war plan, however well conceived, survives contact with the battlefield. And, by now, few know this better than Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For it is clear that his invasion of Ukraine has not gone at all the way he expected.
