At 4 a.m. on Feb. 24, when Russian missiles pounded the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, the post-World War II global order faced its most severe challenge -- far more so than the Balkans crisis of the 1990s and the regional wars in eastern Ukraine since 2014.
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A Ukrainian serviceman holding a weapon in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 25. © Reuters
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