Thursday briefing: How the first year of war in Ukraine unfolded, month by month

Blue and yellow Ukrainian national flags are blown by the wind and flowers lie on graves of soldiers killed in combat against Russian forces, at the Lisove cemetery in the capital of Ukraine. Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

Good morning.

A year ago, no one could have predicted the way that Russia’s war in Ukraine has panned out. The west stands firm in its support and the Ukrainian resistance has proved itself to be agile and adaptive, inflicting losses on Russia that few would have seen coming.