In the early hours of February 24 2022, standing on the freezing roof of a hotel in Kyiv, the idea that Russia would launch a full-scale assault on Ukraine, despite a troop buildup on the border, still seemed almost impossible to imagine. Yes, Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin strongman, had developed a taste for wielding Russia’s … The post Four years on, Russia is still paying for a fatal miscalculation in Ukraine appeared first on Egypt Independent.