The cost of war in Ukraine means growing economic pain for Russia

“The government will provide whatever the army asks for,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told a gathering of military top brass in December. Eighteen months into his war in Ukraine, he seems to be keeping that promise. But he’s doing it increasingly at the expense of economic stability at home.

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