damage. there is no end in sight. we ll look at how russia views this grim year with the anchors of exiled russian broadcaster tv rain. then we ll examine the present and future on the bloody battle field. is the war in a stalemate now and how might it finally end? i ll ask the experts. also, while all eyes are cast upward looking for more chinese balloons which of beijing s other actions are we missing on the ground and in the cyber realm? we ll explore. in the 360 days since russia s invasion, ukraine has become the front line in the global battle for democracy. it is a fight that is being fought in the airwaves as well as on the battle field. putin s minions are working overtime to control the message overseas and at home. under a law passed last year journalists in russia can be jailed for up to 15 years for reporting what the kremlin considers fake news about what its military is doing. and calling the war in ukraine a war could land one in prison. because of the crack
formerly head of the british army, the ukrainian mp oleksiy goncharenko, and michael koffman, director of russia studies at the centre for naval analyses. good evening. welcome to the programme. a special edition tonight as we look towards the one year anniversary tomorrow of the war in ukraine. on this night a year ago, we were still largely guessing at what president putin had in mind. the russian troops had been massing for weeks along the ukraine border, though most ukrainians still doubted the intelligence that was coming from washington. but then just a few hours after the programme came off air, this. the first bombs had begun to fall. the air raid sirens wailed across kyiv for the first time, as russian tanks rolled towards the capital. and at that point, most people expected a quick russian victory. it hasn t turned out that way. the war waged by vladimir putin has been a disaster for his country. the resistance much stronger than he d anticipated. for ukraine it has
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