KEY MESSAGES ON RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE
As Of 13 March, 2022
(18th Day Of War)
Month: March 2022
KEY MESSAGES ON RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE As Of 12 March (17th Day Of War)
Paul Goble’s 50 New Windows on Eurasia
Paul Goble’s 50 New Windows on Eurasia
11 March, 2022
Note: As many of you know, because of illness, I fell behind in producing Windows last fall. I have been working to catch up. But I cannot fail to cover the most important event of the intervening period: Putin’s expanded invasion of Ukraine. Consequently, I have been writing about events from the intervening period and about those connected with events taking place now. I have decided to continue that approach. I will thus be issuing via email batches of 50 Windows at a time which include both. Paul Goble
KEY MESSAGES ON RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE As Of 11.00, 11 March
Ukrainian War Unsettles Russian Regions and Non-Russian Republics
Ukrainian War Unsettles Russian Regions and Non-Russian Republics
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 19 Issue: 31
By: Paul Goble
March 8, 2022
Moscow has been extremely chary about reporting combat losses in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, electing instead to make the heads of the federal subjects responsible for doing so at the local level—lest it become immediately obvious to all Russians just how large these cumulative losses have become. But that decision, like the decision to make the federal subject heads responsible for fighting the coronavirus pandemic, may backfire on the central government. Not only is this forced delegation of responsibility likely to infuriate those governors, who will have to face public anger, but it may also highlight the extent to which “Russian” combat losses are concentrated in non-Russian areas and among rural Russians. Indeed, there is already growing evidence that non-Russian troops are dying in disproportionate numbers in Ukraine. So while most republic leaders have lined up behind Putin’s war, many in the national movements are now talking about pursuing secession from the Russian Federation. Read more
KEY MESSAGES ON RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE As Of 17.00, 10 March (15th Day Of War)
