from above, it's easy to see why experts and leaders have drawn parallels with World War I.
But beyond the visual similarities, the hopes and fears stoked internationally by the conflict and its difference from recent fighting elsewhere bear comparison with the"Great War" - even if the thousands of casualties in Ukraine over four months fall far short of the thousands per day seen over 100 years ago.
But determined defence by the Ukrainians pushed back repeated assaults, forcing the attackers to reorient towards the present grinding war of attrition in the eastern Donbas region.High-tech weapons like French CAESAR howitzers have been deployed in Ukraine. Those early days of the war generated their own heroic tales, like the defiant soldiers of Snake Island radioing expletives to a Russian warship demanding their surrender, or the legendary fighter pilot dubbed the"Ghost of Kyiv".
Some German politicians have even cited by name Christopher Clark's book The Sleepwalkers on the causes of the First World War, fearing a rerun of the spiral of military move and counter-move resulting from the killing of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914. The Ukraine war is also seeing the use on European soil, and at large scale, of battlefield weapons that have mostly been used in deployments far overseas.
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