Good morning. Exactly one year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the conflict has recast international diplomacy – and that diplomacy has, in turn, helped shape the war on the ground.
On the one hand, it might have been difficult to imagine this time last year that western and Nato governments would remain so resolute in opposition to Moscow. And yet the war has also reiterated more familiar patterns: the patchiness of sanctions, suspicion of US intentions among countries in the global south, and China’s determination to assert itself in a newly multipolar world.
