If Russian President Vladimir Putin believed the Ukrainian army would surrender without a fight, he was mistaken.

Ukraine is putting up a tougher fight than Moscow likely expected. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry claims 3,000 Russian troops have been killed in the first 36 hours of the war, although one should be skeptical about any figures released by the combatants. To his credit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hasn’t run away from his people like Ashraf Ghani did seven months ago in Afghanistan. In a defiant self-recorded video on Friday, Zelensky said he was still in Kyiv with his top advisers. This was a message to Putin as much as it was for the Ukrainian people.