On 24 February, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced a ‘special military operation’ aimed at the ‘demilitarisation and denazification’ of Ukraine. Over the past 100 days thousands of Ukrainians have lost their lives and millions have fled their country in the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since the second world war. Michael also talks to Guardian foreign correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison, who has been reporting on the ground throughout the war. Putin’s army has lost some battles and won others, but the Russian president’s rash invasion has become a strategic catastrophe. It has become the very ‘anti-Russia’ the war was supposed to extinguish.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2022 02:23 UTC