Rescue services search for victims under wreckage after an air strike on a residential building in Kyiv.

Rescue services search for victims under wreckage after an air strike on a residential building in Kyiv.

Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Changed Europe. Here’s How

Four years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion, the economic, political and security fallout is reverberating far beyond Ukraine’s borders.

Industrial chemicals have been produced on the banks of the River Elbe outside the city of Wittenberg for more than a century, from the Kaiser era through wars, Communism and the chaotic collapse of East Germany.

Then came Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine and a crisis without parallel for SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz GmbH, which traces its pedigree in producing specialized chemicals for agriculture and industry back to 1915.