Three years on, Ukraine’s valour has shown how one person can change history
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Three years on, Ukraine’s valour has shown how one person can change history

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Three years ago, in the early hours of 24 February 2022, after weeks of visible preparations and a crescendo of warnings from Western intelligence services, Russia launched an all-out military attack on Ukraine by air, land and sea. It is probably fair to say that no one, whether in Russia or Ukraine, Europe or the United States, envisaged that the war begun on that February night would ever enter its second, let alone its fourth, year. But the key change has been with the arrival of the Trump administration in the White House, its abrupt change of direction away from Europe in its foreign and defence policy, and its view of Ukraine as primarily a European responsibility, even as it talks of ending the war without necessarily involving Ukraine. But it also means that Europe, including the UK, must unite behind Ukraine with the same commitment as it showed three years ago.

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1 month ago
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