Europe's political leaders have been slow to recognise financial reality of long wars

Ukraine needs western munitions badly but it remains unclear how much more artillery the UK is prepared to produce UK politics - latest updates Two years and two months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine started the biggest war in Europe since 1945, and Rishi Sunak has announced that the UK's own defence industry should be placed "on a war footing". Speaking on a trip to Poland, the prime minister noted that one of the central lessons of the Ukraine conflict was the need for deeper stockpiles an...