Four years on, Russia is still paying for a fatal miscalculation in Ukraine
- Posted on February 21, 2026
- By CNN
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Four years on, Russia is still paying for a fatal miscalculation in Ukraine

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.