Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s video from Kyiv on February 25, 2022. Both Putin and US intelligence had predicted the city could fall within days.

February 23, 2025

We’re marking the third anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s February 24, 2022 illegal invasion of Ukraine with a retrospective of Policy coverage — a timeline of pieces from among the many excellent ones filed on Ukraine in the past three years. It begins on Day One of the war, with a piece filed by longtime Policy contributing writer, Pendulum Group founding partner and former president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Yaroslav Baran, hours after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine and the bombing of Kyiv began. From February 24th, 2022, here’s Vladimir Putin, History’s Latest Chaos Actor. From former longtime senior diplomat and Policy contributing writer Jeremy Kinsman, who served as Canada’s Ambassador to Russia, also filed on the first day of the war, here’s Putin’s Fateful War of Choice. On Russia’s geopolitical casus belli from Policy Editor Lisa Van Dusen on April 11th, 2022, Lavrov’s Rare Truth About Russia’s Global Motives.

Ambassador Bob Rae addressing the UN on March 24, 2022/Sophie Galarneau, Canadian UN Mission 

From United Nations Ambassador Bob Rae on April 26, 2022, Putin’s War: Truth and Consequences. From then-Ambassador to Ukraine Larisa Galadza filing from Kyiv on December 22, 2022, Dispatch from a Wartime Ambassador. From February 2023, our Ukraine: One Year Later package, with pieces from Bob Rae, Yaroslav Baran, Jeremy Kinsman and former NATO Ambassador Kerry Buck.

NDP MP Heather McPherson in Irpin, Ukraine

From NDP MP Heather McPherson, filing from Ukraine on March 13, 2023, her Policy Dispatch, Witnessing the Indestructible Spirit of Ukraine.

Ukraine Foreign Minster Dmytro Kuleba with Anastasiya Ringis

From October, 2023, our Policy Online Ukraine Series: Yaroslav Baran’s Q&A with Ukraine Ambassador to Canada Yulia Kovaliv; Anastasiya Ringis with Forged in the Maidan and Facing West: Ukraine’s New Generation of Leaders; Canadian diplomat Ashley Mulroney with Notes from a Wartime Posting: The Hardest Part Was Leaving Ukraine; Colin Robertson with Ukraine, Canada and the Call of History.

Sarah Taylor facing police at Navalny’s funeral

From February 16th, 2024, Jeremy Kinsman’s piece filed hours after Alexei Navalny’s murder — which is also about Ukraine — Navalny is Now Immortal, and Putin Has Never Been Weaker. From March 15th, 2024, current Canadian Ambassador to Russia Sarah Taylor with Grief as Defiance: How Muscovites Mourned Navalny. In Policy Book Reviews from November 12, 2024, Jeremy Kinsman’s review of Navalny’s posthumously published memoir, A Legacy of Truth: Alexei Navalny’s Final Act of Patriotism.

Oleksandra Matviichuk/Center for Civil Liberties

And, we close with a key piece from may 31st, 2024, our Policy Q&A: Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on Ukraine, Human Rights and Winning the War, conducted by Anastasiya Ringis.

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