Can you take us back to the first time you were deployed to Ukraine and your initial impressions and expectations about how the war might pan out?
To be honest, when I took up a foreign posting in the London bureau, I really didn't think I'd end up covering a war — let alone one in Europe. By the time I flew into Ukraine, two days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, the writing was on the wall. Moscow had massed tens of thousands of troops on the border and serious warnings were coming from western intelligence.
