'Battleground Ukraine' Review: Kyiv before and after the War
In the years before Vladimir Putin's invasion, Ukraine's post-Soviet leaders sought a balancing act between Russia and the West.
By Arthur Herman
June 21, 2024
Since 1991, Ukraine has experienced periods of hopefulness and even triumph, but it has also had to endure trials and troubles well beyond what anyone could have imagined when the Soviet Union suddenly collapsed and an independent country was born. No ordeal, of course, is greater than the current one: Russia's invasion in February 2022 began a war that rages on and that threatens, with each passing day, to engulf Europe, and the U.S., in a geopolitical contest for supremacy — even as the Ukrainians themselves fight bravely to preserve their territory and sovereignty.
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