It is more than 3,500 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. If that stark fact is as confusing as it is startling, never forget that Ukraine was first invaded in 2014 and that, to a greater or lesser degree, the two countries have been in a state of conflict ever since.
While Ukraine lost Crimea and some of the Donbas in 2014, no-one would deny that the scale of the February 2022 invasion dwarfed what had gone before. The events of 2014 amputated important parts of Ukraine, but the invasion of 2022 presented an existential threat to the country.
