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Although the global Covid pandemic continued to be felt around the world, war returning to Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is what 2022 will mainly be remembered for.

The invasion of Ukraine in March – the largest armed conflict in Europe since the Second World War – came as global economies struggled with the lingering economic fall-out of the pandemic. The disruption of energy supplies from Russia piled further pressure on European nations, leading to various cost-of-living crises in the latter half of the year.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.