.TheTakeaway checks in in with Dr. William Pomeranz, director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, to better understand what’s going on in Russia.
Can we start actually first with the staged referendums in these four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine on Tuesday? What is Russian state media claiming about the outcomes?Russian state media is claiming that they were victories for joining the Russian Federation in all four regions, and so that in the matter of about two weeks or so, it is expected that there will be laws that will annex all four regions to the Russian Federation and that they will be a constituent part of RussiaIs this what...
It has become apparent that there are not enough troops on the ground in order to wage this fight and that Putin needs to conscript soldiers in order to increase the number. The problem is that, as you reported in your opening remarks, hundreds of thousands of Russian men have essentially fled to Georgia, to Finland, to any place that they can get an airplane ticket so that they can avoid conscription.
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