Two weeks after Russia first invaded its neighbour, the battle for the skies over Ukraine is still up in the air.
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.
Before Russia moved in on Feb. 24, military watchers expected the much larger Russian air force to overwhelm Ukraine’s and quickly grab “air superiority,” defined by NATO as being able to conduct operations without “prohibitive interference” from the opposing force.
Instead, an intelligence update from the U.K. early Wednesday said that Ukrainian air defences “appear to have enjoyed considerable success against Russia’s modern combat aircraft, probably preventing them achieving any degree of control of the
