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The Ukraine War Ep. 8: The World At War
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler
Invasion, Reports From the Front Lines
Luke Harding began reporting from Russia in 2007 and was there until his expulsion in 2011. His latest book, Invasion, reports from the front lines and has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. We first spoke to him in late 2021, analysing Putin's aims when he told us this about the Russian leader: "Whenever you see a threat, especially an internal political threat, you crush it as quickly as possible" Just six months after that revealing conversation, Putin would show this vindictive side with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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