ON Feb. 24, 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine in pursuit of its revanchist dreams, the Kremlin expected two things: a puny resistance from Kyiv and Kremlin’s puppets within the Ukrainian polity in full control of the capital in a week, at most. Kyiv did not fall in one week but by the end of 2022 not one hopeful, pro-Ukraine military analyst held out hope that the resistance would last at that pace of attrition and destruction from the Russian