A little over two years ago, in the dead of a quiet night in late February 2022, pretty much every journalist in Ukraine was wide awake. We were staring into our laptops in the dark. Updating news feeds every other minute. Looking at U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance aircraft wiggling over Ukraine and scanning the border with Belarus north of Kyiv and the Donbas front in the east. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Yours truly was quietly sipping whiskey in the gloom of his poor rented apartment in northwest Kyiv.