It has been two years since Ukrainians were able to go to sleep at night safe in the knowledge that a Russian cruise missile would not come crashing through their roofs. Two years since Vladimir Putin, ruled by his own dark obsessions, launched a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, created millions of refugees and plunged the West into its biggest security crisis since the defeat of Nazi Germany.
And there is no end in sight.
As Ukraine marks the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion in 2022 today, the Kremlin’s forces are on the offensive across much of the 620-mile front line. Last week, Putin’s army took control of Avdiivka, an industrial town in the eastern Donetsk region that was a symbol
