Apparent divisions between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his military command are becoming increasingly public, after a bitter back-and-forth over the state of play in the war with Russia ...

Despite periodic predictions that either Ukrainian or Russian forces are on the verge of a battlefield breakthrough, there can be little doubt that the war in Ukraine has ground to a bloody stalemate.

Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is the Levin Professor of History and Public Affairs at Yale University, and author of ‘Bloodlands’ It ...