Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reached it's 100th day, and even after thousands of deaths, billions of dollars worth of destruction and repeated Russian failures to achieve their goals ... the war rages on. With the focus of the fight in Eastern Ukraine, Russia seems to be increasingly confident it can occupy and hold Ukrainian territories for the long term.

And to that point, the Russians have been making progress in capturing some key towns in Ukraine's Donbas region.

Ukraine's president Zelensky now says Russia controls about a fifth of the country's territory.

Meanwhile Vladimir Putin seems to be digging in for a war of attrition, hoping to outlast both Ukraine's military and the resolve of Western countries and NATO. Putin is calculating that the financial and military support from the West will soon start to level off ... and even decline.

What might happen in the next 100 days?

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