For many on Wednesday, standing in Westminster, listening to President Zelensky address the crowd, beams of sunlight filtering through the high windows, it was an historic occasion. Later this month marks one year of Ukrainian blood being split, their women brutalised, civilians tortured, their cities flattened and husbands and brothers dying on the battlefield.
Their civilian death toll, as Zelensky painfully knows, will dramatically mount in the coming months, as Vladimir Putin enters a new phase in his war on Ukraine. Life is cheap for him, and the source of his young recruits cruelly plentiful.
