Russia Is Destroying Itself to Destroy Ukraine
Four years into a "three-day" operation, Putin's invasion has achieved the opposite of every goal it was launched for: more NATO on Russia's border, nearly two million casualties, and a demographic freefall at home.
Simon Whistler • February 24, 2026
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A special military operation that was the way that russian president vladimir putin described the campaign he launched exactly four years ago today on february the 24th 2022 and if you didn't know any better you might think he was describing some targeted strike on a weapons depot or an extraction of russian nationals from a conflict zone something that
Would barely make the news he wasn't and look if you clicked on this video then you already know that the three-day nature of this operation was just a little bit optimistic we're now four years on from what has become europe's deadliest conflict since the second world war and if the sheer scale of what this invasion kicked off doesn't stun you the fact that
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