The Weekend Intelligence: A Farewell to Arms
Description
Ilya Andreyev has had three lives since the war in Ukraine broke out. First, as a journalist within Russia’s propaganda machine; then, as cannon fodder on the frontlines; and now, as a deserter, living in exile.
Our Russia editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, has spent many hours talking to him. In the midst of a grimly attritional conflict, it’s a story that can help us to understand the forces drawing people into Russia’s army - and the limits of Vladimir Putin’s power over them.
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