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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. On the 24th of February 22, the world learned anew a golden rule of history.

Never say never.

Early that morning, Russian airborne troops launched an assault at a key airport outside the

Ukrainian capital, Kiev, in an effort to decapitate the

regime. At the same time, columns of tanks rolled across the border from Belarus and into Ukraine.

The warning signs that Vladimir Putin was planning an invasion were there for all to see,

but no one could believe that nearly 80 years after the end of the Second World War,

Europe would ever

see another full-scale conventional conflict. The fighting is more intense and bloody than anything

since 1945. It's already had huge consequences not only for Russia and Ukraine, but also for

the rest of the world. The unthinkable has happened, and there is no way of knowing where the story

will end. Hello and welcome back to Battleground. I'm Saul David. And I'm Patrick Bishop. Those of you

who followed our last series on the Falklands will know who we are. For the newcomers, we're both

best-selling military historians with a deep

interest in conflict. Not just the bang-bang, but the political and social factors that underpin

all war. The Falklands, of course, was history. Ukraine is very much in the here and now.

It's six months old and shows no sign of ending anytime soon.

So we believe that after the huge surge in media interest at the outset, coverage has

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