--- title: How the World Changed Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine description: From NATO's revitalization to a renewed focus on Taiwan, here's what's different a year after the Kremlin attacked Ukraine. canonical: https://time.com/6256509/ukraine-russia-war-anniversary/ author: Yasmeen Serhan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-02-22T18:57:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:51:25.291Z article:section: World og:title: How the World Changed Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine og:description: From NATO's revitalization to a renewed focus on Taiwan, TIME looks at what's different a year after Feb. 24, 2022. og:url: https://time.com/6256509/ukraine-russia-war-anniversary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89d85f293a44afdf/698a3a8c16d884d271c3b953/ukraine-russia-war.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Daily Life In Kyiv region, As First Anniversary Of Russia's Large-Scale Invasion Nears og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the World Changed Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine twitter:description: From NATO's revitalization to a renewed focus on Taiwan, TIME looks at what's different a year after Feb. 24, 2022. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89d85f293a44afdf/698a3a8c16d884d271c3b953/ukraine-russia-war.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How the World Changed in the Year Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine > Sponsored content. 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Here's Why He Went Anyway [Watch (HLS stream): The Secret Service Opposed Biden's Trip to Ukraine. Here's Why He Went Anyway](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vmFQw3rU.m3u8) (3:33)  _Published 2023-02-21. U.S. President Joe Biden made a surprise stop in Kyiv Monday, ahead of a scheduled trip to Poland four days before the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Against the wishes of the secret service and the Pentagon, Biden arrived in the besieged capital following a covert operation to conceal his whereabouts, which involved a 10-hour train ride from the Polish border. Many gathered in Heaven’s Hundred Square, which was barricaded and surrounded by military and police officials, to spot Biden._  by [Yasmeen Serhan](https://time.com/author/yasmeen-serhan/)  ## Yasmeen Serhan Feb 22, 2023 6:57 PM UTC  A man rides a bicycle past residential buildings that were destroyed during the Russian attack, on Feb. 20, 2023 in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine. A man rides a bicycle past residential buildings that were destroyed during the Russian attack, on Feb. 20, 2023 in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine.Roman Pilipey—Getty Images  by [Yasmeen Serhan](https://time.com/author/yasmeen-serhan/)  ## Yasmeen Serhan Feb 22, 2023 6:57 PM UTC “There are decades where nothing happens,” the Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is thought to have said, “and there are weeks where decades happen.” While the veracity of the quote is in doubt, its premise couldn’t be more true when it comes to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the year since Russian President Vladimir Putin set his so-called “special military operation” into motion, the world has been altered profoundly—in some ways, perhaps, irrevocably. The Feb. 24, 2022 invasion has sparked a new sense of purpose within Europe and the wider U.S.-led Western military alliance. It has upended the world economy and forced [a new energy reality](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/opinion/europe-energy-crisis-natural-gas-russia.html) in Europe. It has spurred the [largest and fastest displacement](https://media.un.org/en/asset/k12/k12pg9pynr#:~:text=The%20Russian%20Federation%27s%20invasion%20of,told%20the%20Security%20Council%20today.) of people in decades. It has even begun to influence the geopolitical thinking around events that have not yet occurred. One year on, here are the most significant consequences of the war so far. ## A revitalized NATO When Putin began laying the groundwork for the invasion of Ukraine, he pointed to what he characterized as [an existential threat](http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/press%5Fconferences/67438) posed by NATO’s expansion into post-Soviet space. What was once a fear has since become a self-fulfilling prophecy: As a result of the invasion, the Western military alliance is poised to expand even further with the looming ascension of Finland and Sweden (though the latter is being held up by [a Turkish veto](https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/22/nato-turkey-still-refuses-to-lift-veto-on-swedens-membership-application)). Such expansion would have been unthinkable just a year ago. Finland and Sweden, long considered buffers between the West and Russia, were neutral countries that long eschewed military alliances—a status quo that was backed by the majority of their populations. But Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine exposed their vulnerability and, seemingly overnight, public opinion began to swing in favor of NATO membership. “Finland would have been very unlikely to join NATO on a fast track were it not for Putin,” says former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, though that’s not all he credits the Russian leader for inadvertently achieving. The invasion of Ukraine has not only spurred the expansion of the alliance, but it has also led to further investment among its members—most notably [Germany](https://time.com/6170974/olaf-scholz-germany-interview/) and [Poland](https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-military-superpower-poland-army/), both of which have dramatically increased their defense spending. Indeed, all NATO members are on track to fulfill the alliance’s guidelines of spending at least 2% of their national GDP on defense; there is even talk of [exceeding that target](https://reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/nato-allies-may-lift-target-spend-2-output-defence-stoltenberg-2022-11-21/#:~:text=In%20response%20to%20Russia's%20annexation,output%20on%20defence%20from%202024.). While Ukraine’s appeals to [join the alliance](https://www.politico.eu/article/west-war-taboo-ukraine-join-nato/) have been rebuffed, Kyiv has nonetheless benefited from the military might of its members, several of which have pledged billions of dollars in financial and military aid. Such is the irony of Putin’s war. A year ago, “Putin wanted less NATO,” says Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance’s erstwhile secretary-general. Now, as a direct result of his actions, “he has got more NATO.” --- ### More from TIME --- ## A stronger, more unified Europe Like NATO, the European Union has attracted the interest of new prospective members. Ukraine submitted its membership application within days of Moscow’s invasion, followed by Georgia and Moldova. The bloc has in turn enjoyed a renewed sense of unity and purpose; to date, it has passed nine sanctions packages targeting Russian officials, banks, industries, and more. A [10th round of sanctions](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement%5F23%5F907) is in the works. European officials admit that maintaining agreement among the E.U.’s 27 members [hasn’t been easy](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/02/15/keeping-eu-unity-over-the-ukraine-war-has-not-always-been-easy-josep-borrell-admits), particularly when it comes to achieving the buy-in of governments closer to Moscow such as [Hungary](https://time.com/6159342/european-union-russia-hungary/). But on the whole, the war in Ukraine has galvanized European unity and has even allowed Poland, another post-Soviet state once at odds with Brussels over its rule of law violations, to emerge as the standard bearer of E.U. solidarity against Russian aggression. While support for Ukraine’s E.U. membership remains high—including from seemingly unlikely corners, such as Britain’s former Prime Minister and Brexiteer-in-chief Boris Johnson—Kyiv’s accession to the bloc is unlikely to occur[ anytime soon](https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-eu-membership-two-years-prime-minister-denys-shmyhal/). Still, the way some observers see it, the question of Ukraine’s E.U. membership is a matter of when, not _if_. “Ukraine will eventually become an E.U. member,” says Stubb, a prediction that he has also extended to Georgia and Moldova. “When someone behaves as aggressively and as illegally as Putin has done, then the rest of us gang up and integrate.” ## The largest refugee crisis in decades One of the starkest consequences of the Russian invasion has been the displacement of millions of Ukrainians, internally and externally. To date, [more than 8 million](https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine) Ukrainian refugees have been recorded across Europe, according to the U.N. refugee agency, the vast majority of them women and children (Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 to 60 are not permitted to leave the country). That represents [nearly 20%](https://cream-migration.org/ukraine-detail.htm?article=3573#:~:text=People%20fleeing%20Ukraine&text=Around%208.0%20million%20people%20have,since%20returned%20to%20the%20country.) of Ukraine’s pre-war population, the highest proportions of which can now be found in neighboring Poland as well as Germany and the Czech Republic. “This is the fastest forced displacement of people since the 1940s,” says Beata Javorcik, the chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, noting that the loss of human capital will have a profound impact on Ukraine and its ability to rebuild when the war finally ends. Overall, refugees “are typically younger, more educated people, more entrepreneurial people,” she adds. “These are the people you need for reconstruction.” ## The intertwining of business and geopolitics Prior to the Russian invasion, business and geopolitics were largely able to exist separately from one another. There was a sense that “you could let trade be trade and let people build their supply chains, make their investments, make money from wherever it makes sense to make money, manufacture things wherever it makes sense to manufacture things, and then let geopolitics be geopolitics and have the two be kind of separate,” says Dmitry Grozoubinski, a former trade negotiator at the World Trade Organization and founder of the ExplainTrade website. But within days of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, [scores of businesses](https://time.com/6154429/companies-withdrawing-from-russia-ukraine/) around the world announced their intentions to suspend their operations in Russia. “The biggest change that’s happened in people’s minds after the invasion of Ukraine is watching just how quickly geopolitics can override economic considerations,” says Grozoubinski. “You have regulators requiring that firms include in their risk analysis geopolitics, but increasingly boards \[are\] doing it as well,” something that he says will prove just as relevant when it comes to U.S.-China relations. Still, of the more than 1,500 multinationals that announced voluntary exits from the Russian market, about 500 have done so completely, according to [a list](https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-curtailed-operations-russia-some-remain) compiled by Yale University. Another [recent analysis](https://b4ukraine.org/whats-new/more-than-half-of-international-firms) produced by B4Ukraine, a coalition of Ukrainian and international civil society organizations, found that of the 3,000 multinational companies, more than half continue to do business with Russia. Many of them are headquartered in G7 countries, according to their latest report, “potentially undermining the group’s efforts to curtail the Kremlin’s revenues and support an independent Ukraine.” ## Less dependence on Russian oil and gas After Russia’s invasion, Europe imposed a [ban on Russian oil imports](https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/rising-flow-russian-oil-products-china-india-middle-east-russell-2023-02-16/) and has decreased its [dependence on Russian gas](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/eu-gas-supply/) from 35.7% in February 2022 to 12.9% today—a shift that is as much a consequence of European initiative as it is of Moscow’s. In addition to the Kremlin demanding that foreign buyers purchase Russian gas in rubles, in [an apparent bid](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-sets-deadline-rouble-gas-payments-europe-calls-it-blackmail-2022-03-31/) to prop up the country’s struggling currency, the Russian energy firm Gazprom indefinitely halted the flow of gas to Western Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. While the steep decline in Russian energy has spurred fears of an energy crisis this winter, the impact of which is being felt across the continent, it has also [turbocharged the transition](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/02/13/war-and-subsidies-have-turbocharged-the-green-transition) to alternative, renewable energy sources. “Eastern European E.U. members, which viewed the green transition as something that was imposed on them by Brussels, are actually embracing the green transition because it has become a matter of energy security,” says Javorcik. “Suddenly, there is a realization that energy security cannot be achieved by geographical diversification of energy sources; you need diversification of the kind of sources.” ## An incompletely-isolated Russia “The reality that we face in Europe is a permanently isolated Russia, and this is going to be a generational thing,” says Stubb, the former Finnish leader. Even if the war were to end tomorrow, it would likely take decades, if not generations, for trust to be restored between Russia and the West. For Ukrainians, that day [may never come](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/ukraine-russia-war-hate/661458/). “We’re not going to be able to put the egg back together again,” says Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London. “Whatever emerges from this is going to be very different from where it was in 2021, because the distrust of Russia is so much deeper.” But solidarity with Ukraine has its limits. As [U.N. General Assembly votes](https://time.com/6222005/un-vote-russia-ukraine-allies/) have made clear, not all countries are willing to involve themselves in this war more than they already have been. India and China continue to straddle the line of ostensible neutrality, as have dozens of other countries representing nearly half of the world’s population. “The crisis has shown that most of the non-aligned world has remained non-aligned and, in some cases, is still leaning towards Russia,” adds Chalmers. “There is not an international consensus against Russia; there’s a Western consensus against Russia.” ## A new focus on Taiwan Even as Ukraine continues to dominate global focus, world leaders have started to pay closer attention to China and the potential lessons it could glean from Moscow. “Any attempt by China to try to change the status quo \[in Taiwan\] by the use of military force will have severe consequences for East Asia,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told [_Nikkei Asia_](https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Interview/NATO-chief-says-China-has-no-justification-for-Taiwan-threats) in a recent interview. “But it will also have consequences for NATO allies and for global security.” There are, of course, fundamental differences between Ukraine and Taiwan. While the former is an internationally-recognized independent state, the latter is not. And whereas trade disruptions between Russia and the West have proven particularly damaging for the global economy, a similar such dispute with China, which boasts an economy 10 times the size of Russia’s, would be “apocalyptic,” says Grozoubinski. While Putin and Xi are very different leaders (“Xi Jinping is patient and smart,” Stubb says, whereas “Putin is impatient and rash”), the mistakes committed by the former does illustrate what could happen should the latter choose to follow a similar path vis-à-vis Taiwan. “Had Putin just walked into Kyiv in 48 hours, Xi Jinping might think that perhaps I can do the same thing in Taiwan,” says Stubb. “But now he kind of understands that he can’t.” **Correction, Feb. 23** The original version of this story misquoted Beata Javorcik on the historical precedents for the displacement of people during the Ukraine War. 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