Russia has lost something like 100,000 IT specialists. It's now bleeding human capital. A lot of young people are being now conscripted into the army's sand. Russia is militarizing more and more.
After a year of a conflict that was predicted to last just days, we examine the battle lines—seeing an opportunity for Ukraine that may not come around again. We look at the strains on Russian civil society by speaking with self-exiled citizens. And one Ukrainian woman who returned to Kharkiv tells us how the war has changed her.
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