Do You Think the Russians Did a Good Job?

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A lot of people in a lot of militaries outside Russia and Ukraine have been working pretty hard to figure this out. It really matters whether the Russians just sort of messed up this time, or if there's something seriously wrong with the way that they fight. They were extremely ill-prepared. They made all the wrong assumptions, and they therefore went in in ways that really have nothing to do with warfare. So it's one of those things where you can't just try again because you don't have the same resources with which to try again.

February 24 marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin believed the country’s military would be defeated quickly and Kyiv, the capital, would fall. Instead, Ukraine’s clever, nimble — and motivated — military has fought back Russia’s forces despite being vastly outgunned.

But the war has taken a terrible toll. Thousands of people have died. Cites have been devastated and millions of displaced Ukrainians are now living as refugees in other countries.

Bloomberg journalists Daryna Krasnolutska and Marc Champion in Kyiv, and Rosalind Mathieson in London join this episode to take stock of all that has happened in the past year, and what lies ahead for Ukraine.

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