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These events were predictable and foreseeable. However, despite this, on 24 February 2022, the world shuddered in horror. It seems that no one expected a war of this magnitude. As it turned out, no country was ready for it. Moreover, the largest military conflict in Europe since the Second World War is unfolding in a completely unexpected scenario.

Sergiy Plohiy, one of Ukraine's leading historians, exhaustively analyses Russia's full-scale invasion, its origins, course, and possible outcomes. Why did Putin decide to start a war? How do Ukrainians manage to put up such fierce resistance to the "second army of the world"? How is the West united and Russia completely isolated against the backdrop of all these events? And what will be the consequences of the war for Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the world as a whole?