(Bloomsbury)The Battle of Kyiv, one of the critical events of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ended with a very unscripted Ukrainian victory just over two years ago. It feels like it's been a millennium since those days of February and March 2022.We in Ukraine have had our drastic ups and downs in this fight. They stretch from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rage-twisted face spelling the end of independent Ukraine on TV screens around the world, from the glorious liberation of Kharkiv Oblast and Kherson to the fields of death at Bakhmut or Avdiivka to the Ukrainian victory over Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.These days, unfortunately, the situation is going downhill. For many months, we’ve been a hostage of domestic political strife in the United States, our foremost provider of defense aid.