How Russia's War on Ukraine is Reshaping Europe's Defense Strategy

Russia's war on Ukraine is now in its fifth year. Where do things stand?

There's been very little movement on the front line, and that says quite a lot about Russian military capability, but also particularly about Ukraine's ability to defend itself and hold the line. Russia needs to win, whereas Ukraine just needs to not lose, essentially.

Starting to shift things a little bit is the way in which Ukraine has been able to strike deeply into Russia, and not just on oil refineries and energy infrastructure. They've been targeting Moscow, bringing the war much closer to the Russian public. The regime and Putin can no longer deny that this is actually impacting ordinary Russians.

One of the things that's come out of the NATO summit is that Trump said the United States will provide licenses to Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles. If that actually were to happen, that would provide quite a big advantage for Ukraine.

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