Vladimir Putin’s ludicrous assertion that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine is the rhetoric of a damaged leader trying to justify a backfiring military adventure.
It is a sobering thought, ahead of Friday’s first anniversary of the invasion, that had the Ukrainians not defended their country with such valour, or had the US, Britain, Germany and other democracies not supplied weapons, it would have been Putin in Kyiv this week instead of Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukrainians remain defiant but they have suffered grievously from the brutality of invaders targeting civilians, killing indiscriminately and committing horrific war crimes.
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