Putin was catastrophically, preposterously wrong. Four years and between 200,000 and 400,000 dead Russian soldiers later (estimates vary), the Russian army holds about 20 per cent of Ukraine’s ...

A quick landgrab has distorted into a complex geopolitical conflict – and even Trump’s fulminations can’t seem to make Ukrainians give in, says Rajan Menon, a professor emeritus of international relat ...

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