Ukraine: Through the Gloom

A Ukrainian solider mans a trench in the Donetsk Oblast (Photo by Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty Images) Neil Hauer, in an assessment for War on the Rocks of how the Russo-Ukraine War has been covered, identifies a phenomenon which anyone following events closely will recognise – the tendency for narratives of either a Russian or a Ukrainian victory to grip the commentariat, only to be followed by a swing in the other direction as a breakthrough fails to materialise and the supposedly losing si