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One Month Into Putin’s War on Ukraine, What’s Changed?
Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, everybody’s initial expectations — from Zelenskiy to Biden — have been forced to evolve. Here’s how.
Fierce resistance.
Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
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It’s been more than a month since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. With the strength of the Ukrainian resistance and surprising Russian military incompetence, many previous expectations for how the war would unfold have been shattered, or forced to evolve. Bobby Ghosh spoke on Twitter Spaces with Bloomberg Opinion columnists to discuss what the expectations of the different actors were at the start, and what’s changed in the last 34 days.
This is a lightly edited transcription of the first half of the conversation. Listen to the full event here.