Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky made an unannounced visit to Zoom, a small town in eastern Ukraine that the country just reclaimed from Russia. This counter-offensive has a lot of people asking whether Ukraine's winning now, and it's got a whole lot of people feeling like Putin's blowing it. Rama with Mary Oluszna, who covers Russia for the Washington Post, will help us understand what just happened in Ukraine and why it's making Putin look real bad.
A recent Ukrainian counteroffensive seems to have caught Russia on its back foot. That could have consequences for Putin in the war — and at home. The Washington Post’s Mary Ilyushina explains.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Miles Bryan, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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