Russia's 'hidden mobilization': The 'expendable' lives fueling Putin's war on Ukraine
Lough offers a sobering assessment of the social and strategic dynamics sustaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Key points
- Many of those recruited, he explains, "have been recruited for a deliberate reason because they were seen, you know, ultimately as lives that were expendable, in other words as cannon fodder.".
Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome John Lough, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Foreign Policy & International Partnerships at the New Eurasian Strategies Centre (NEST Centre), He is also an Associate Fellow with the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House.
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