🇺🇦🇷🇺 Global Eyes: Ukraine and Russia

A year has passed. Where do things stand?

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The anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion is at hand, so let’s spend the next few days taking a closer look at the war and its global ramifications.

On the ground

Don’t miss the Washington Post’s interview with captive Wagner fighters. (The Washington Post has consistently done terrific reporting in Ukraine.)

According to a British intelligence estimate, convicts make up 80 percent of Wagner’s forces in Ukraine. Half of their prison recruits have already been injured or killed. They’ve lost so many men, the captured prisoners told the Post, that recently Wagner’s enforcement teams have stopped assassinating men who hesitate to fight.

One of the men said he watched a friend taken off to be shot—or “zeroed”—by a Wagner enforcement team for protesting deployments that sometimes led to hundreds of fighters a day being killed in and around Bakhmut. …