Days, perhaps hours, and Kiev will fall into the hands of the Russians. This was the expectation a year ago, after President Vladimir Putin launched his military operation against Ukraine.
But the winds of war did not blow as the Moscow ships would have liked.
Days and months passed, and the Ukrainian army, which ranked fifteenth in the world, performed surprisingly well in the face of the second most powerful army in the world, according to the classification of the "Global Fire Power" index for the year 2023.
What is the secret of Ukraine's military steadfastness throughout a year of war?
What is the role of Western support in this steadfastness?
How long can it go on?
The media, Amal Al-Areesi, hosts, in a rich episode of the Al-Jazeera podcast "After Yesterday", the military expert and retired Major General Mamoun Abu Nowar, and they discuss the factors of Ukraine's military steadfastness in this war, which has entered its second year.