How Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Changes The World As We Know It
How Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Changes
The World As We Know It 3/1/22
by NPR
Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/136192789
Journalist Anne Applebaum has been covering the war in Ukraine for The Atlantic. “I don’t think that we will ever again smugly assume that borders in Europe can’t be changed by force,” she says. We talk about why Putin takes Ukrainian democracy as a personal and political threat — and how Stalin created a famine to destroy the Ukrainian national movement in the 1930s.
Why is Russia invading Ukraine and what does Putin want? – BBC News
By air, land, and sea, Russia has launched a devastating attack on Ukraine, a European democracy of 44 million people. Its forces are bombing city centres and closing in on the capital, Kyiv, prompting a mass exodus of refugees.
For months, President Vladimir Putin denied he would invade his neighbour, but then he tore up a peace deal and unleashed what Germany calls "Putin's war", pouring forces into Ukraine's north, east and south.
As the number of dead climbs, Russia's leader stands accused of shattering peace in Europe. What happens next could jeopardise the continent's entire security structure.
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