"On 23 February 2022, we were sitting in the president's office. It was another 'invasion [day]'. There were several times it could have started. We sat there until about 01:00, w aiting and waiting, and nothing happened.
23 February 2022 felt interminable. All sorts of intelligence agencies had spent the previous few weeks trying to give President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the date when the great Russian invasion would "definitely" begin.