Yuliya Tymoshenko: Ukraine has already won three crucial battles

The former prime minister says Ukraine's war against Russia is underpinned by its identification with western values, and is being powered by a renewed sense of unity

Yulia Tymoshenko addressing a protest in Kiev hours after her release from prison on February 22, 2014. The former prime minister writes that Ukraine has had to win battles against its own dictators. Picture: Efrem Lukatsky/AP 

Nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war’s end seems nowhere in sight.

Nonetheless, Ukraine has already won numerous important battles, many of which we began fighting long before Russia’s latest assault on our country. These victories will, I am certain, help to ensure our final victory in this vile and violent war.