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Superpowers: The Future of Global Security

‘People aren’t coming home’ | Mark Galeotti on the reality of Putin’s meat grinder campaign

Season 1, Ep. 6

Russian security expert Mark Galeotti joins James Heappey on Superpowers to discuss four years since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and what Russian casualty figures mean for the country, and Putin’s morale. 

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