Kuala Lampur, June 26 -- For many outside Europe, there is a growing temptation to believe that the war in Ukraine is slowly winding down.

After all, the conflict has entered its fifth year. International attention has shifted intermittently toward tensions in West Asia, maritime insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz, and intensifying strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific. Fatigue has inevitably set in.

Yet recent developments suggest precisely the opposite.

The Ukraine-Russia war is becoming more technologically sophisticated, geographically expansive and strategically dangerous.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently announced that after consultations with the head of Ukraine's security services, he had authorised a forty...