The latest dispatch from the front line by The Independent’s world affairs editor, Sam Kiley, is a graphic illustration of how much the conflict in Ukraine has transformed modern warfare – and how this could work to the advantage of Kyiv, and the West more generally.
Not so long ago, soon after Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation”, the latest stage in Russia’s attempt to expunge Ukraine from the map, Volodymyr Zelensky was leading delegations to Western capitals pleading for the traditional weapons of war – modern battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers, artillery, advanced fighter jets and so on.
