Lithuanian PM: Putin Underestimated Ukraine’s Willingness To Fight Off Russian Invasion

Russian President Vladimir Putin

A frontline prime minister in the Ukraine crisis said today that Russian President Vladimir Putin underestimated Ukraine’s willingness to fight off a Russian invasion.

Putin also underestimated the Western democracies and their Pacific partners’ united response to the invasion, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said Monday at an online Washington Post forum. Simonyte noted this isn’t the first time Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons to settle a...

https://news.usni.org/2022/02/28/lithuanian-pm-putin-underestimated-ukraines-willingness-to-fight-off-russian-invasion

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