What Can You Sell as a Victory?

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The question always is, what can you sell as a victory? And I do think the glimmer of light there is that in the same way that he has been able to control the message at home. The Ukrainians have still a motivated force. They're still getting armed and the Russians have sent several hundred thousand new troops to the front. So it's very, very difficult to see how any time soon there can be any kind of settlement. Neither side has an interest. Neither side is exhausted.

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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