Short on supplies, low on morale and with a loss of momentum, the Russian military invasion of Ukraine has not gone according to the Kremlin’s plan, what it’s calling a “special military operation.” Host Marco Werman speaks with Michael Kofman, the research program director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses, to understand what early setbacks mean for the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
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