Russia begins long-awaited push to seize eastern Ukraine … fight to the death in Mariupol … and the cost of war in Russia
. While Kremlin officials have shown no signs of contrition, some unlikely critics of the war have also grown more outspoken.
On both sides of a polarised Russian society, they write, the failures of the first stage of the war have raised the stakes of the conflict, turning what the Kremlin calls a “special operation” into an existential one.
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