Two years of war: Ukraine warns West it will be Putin’s next target if Russia is allowed to win
In the blasted moonscapes of Ukraine’s front lines, exhausted soldiers fight a war for a world they feel has forgotten them.
Squatting deep in scorched-black mud, with supplies running low, artillery units ration what they fire at Russian positions.
Every day, they face a “human wave” of Russian soldiers, whose commanders seemingly have no qualms about sending men over the top into a battlefield now nicknamed “the meat grinder”.
Two years into Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine – which ignited Europe’s bloodiest war in generations – Kyiv is still hanging onto a buckling 1,000km front line, using every last ounce of energy to fight.
The cost has been desperately high, with tens of thousands of civilian casualties and an estimated 70,000 Ukrainian troops killed in the line
