The Impact of Russia's Pound Two Strike on Ukraine

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I'm dumbfounded by the whole situation. The idea that the head of the Wagner mercenary group, the Evgeny Progosion, would launch an armed insurgency and then drive towards Moscow wasn't really my bingo card or on anyone's bingo card in the immediate future. But what it did was it laid bare just the amount of chaos there is inside the Russian political system at the moment. How unstable a dictatorship is when politics begins to take bold.

Tim Mak is a writer, reporter, and founder of the online publication The Counteroffensive. He was formerly the Washington Investigative Correspondent for National Public Radio.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Tim Mak discuss the slow progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive and how a big breakthrough might come about; how the collective experience of resisting Russian aggression has contributed to a shared sense of Ukrainian national identity; and what the future may hold for a post-war Ukraine.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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