Irish Examiner view: No sign of an end to Putin’s aggression

Anniversary of invasion

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday. Picture: Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

It is now one year since Russia invaded Ukraine and began a war that rages still in the eastern reaches of Europe. 

That war has revived images reminiscent of the 1940s — lines of forlorn refugees tramping slowly away from the battle lines, each of them carrying a bundle or two on the journey.