Within days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces the ultimate choice as he sizes up US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for his country.
The US leader views the Ukraine conflict as not his war, and he is determined to bring it to a close. Highwire talks in Geneva have, at last, given the Europeans a seat at the table as national security advisers from Ukraine and its main allies try to shape Washington’s plan.
It is necessary to remember that whatever the course of the negotiations over the next few days, Ukraine’s importance to Europe has reached an unparalleled point.
The battle for Ukraine has introduced new levels of electronic warfare. The Ukrainians had a flourishing technology industry before the war began, and they have channelled this genius into the battlefield.
One of the surprises at the outset of the fighting was that Russia could not establish air supremacy over Ukraine. This resulted in a conflict that saw First World War-style trench warfare and hardly moving frontlines, but also something new.
The reliance of the Russians on Iran’s Shahed drones and its missile force for daily impact in the conflict has seen the Ukrainians build their own weapons industry.
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