Over 1,000 days of war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned Kyiv’s Western allies of dire – potentially nuclear – consequences if they “escalate” the war by giving Ukraine the weapons it needs to defend itself.

The war he started in 2022 by invading Ukraine, he implied, was another such moment. “We are witnessing the formation of a completely new world order, nothing like we have had in the past, such as the Westphalian or Yalta systems,

Russian forces have made incremental gains across different parts of the front line this week, according to the Institute for the Study of War , whose maps show the latest state o