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I think one mistake that Ukraine's allies made at the beginning of the full scale invasion was to overpromise what sanctions could achieve. Sanctions were never going to stop Russian tanks. What sanctions were going to do was slowly strangle the Russian economy."

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Zelensky was very clever and calculated in the early days of the war," says Ed Arnold from defence and security think tank, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). His decision go to the Munich security conference two weeks before the invasion, despite being advised that this would be a security risk, was pivotal, argues Mr Arnold. "It personalised support to Ukraine within the minds of people who personally attended."