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Two years on, what has gone wrong with the Western strategy on Ukraine against Russia?

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TOPSHOT - This photograph taken on February 22, 2024 shows the portraits of Valentyna Leonicheva, 74, Lyudmyla Kravchenko, 46, Sergiy Kravchenko, 23, displayed during a funeral ceremony at the site of their home, destroyed by a Russian missile strike, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on February 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)

International military backing and political admiration for Ukraine’s brave resistance are wearing thin.

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When Russian troops

launched their all-out invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022,

nobody believed that Ukraine could last for more than just a few weeks.

Yet, two years on, Ukraine remains independent and the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky, which Russia was so determined to overthrow, not only survived intact but has also not budged from Kyiv, the capital.

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