Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year ago inevitably overshadows the Munich Security Conference, which warns that Russian President Vladimir Putin "has made the clash of competing visions a brutal and deathly reality."
In its annual report on Monday, the world's self-described leading forum for debating international security policy noted Russia's full-scale assault on its neighbor has not only caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties, forced millions to flee their homes and inflicted massive war damages.