Battle for Ukraine's Cities

Almost exactly 30 years after Bosnian Serbs began shelling Sarajevo, large European cities are once again being besieged. Sarajevo survived - but can Kharkiv, Mariupol and Kyiv?

In Chechnya with Russia soldiers in 2002

It took a trip to Sarajevo this week, the epicentre of Europe's last bloody war, to bring home to me what the Ukrainians are up against in the battle to hang on to their cities.

I first drove into the Bosnian capital, alone and at 80mph, shortly after that conflict started in 1992, as the sound of shelling and mach…