I hope you’ve all read the steady stream of pieces that they’ve done for foreign affairs over the past several months. All three of them have done really some of the best work anywhere on the war over the past year. But we really cannot ask for a better lineup of Foreign Affairs authors to make sense of what’s transpired over the past year and also, perhaps more importantly, to help us understand what’s coming next, whether that’s on the battlefield, in Russia, in U.S.-Russian relations, and in geopolitics more broadly. This is, of course, an extremely grim occasion, a grim anniversary. A year later, the world is still debating what is at stake in Ukraine and what it will take to bring this war to an end. It has strengthened some alliances while straining others. The war has disrupted global food and energy markets. The consequences of Putin’s decision to invade have stretched far beyond Ukraine’s borders, too. Ukrainian towns have been destroyed, thousands of civilians have died, and the trauma of war crimes haunts survivors. That the war has lasted this long is evidence of how wrong Putin’s initial assumptions were and how well the Ukrainian military has performed on the battlefield.Īlthough Ukraine has heroically defended itself, the conflict has taken an enormous toll. When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he thought his military would quickly take Kyiv and bring down the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Foreign Affairs Editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan and authors, Dara Massicot, Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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