Welcome to Washington Post live and my quest today is one of the biggest investors in russia after the fall of communism and the true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving vladamir putins wrath. Thank you for joining us on war post live. Great to be here. Thank you. Before we get to your book, i want to first have questions for bill browder, tweet them to us and well put to our guest. I want to ask you to focus before we talk about the book on the war in ukraine. Id be interested in your sense of the battlefield right now as russia in the second round. The first two dais of the war that russia would roll into ukraine and theyd take over kyiv that zelensky would flee and they could then wave the russian flag and with great pride and patriotism and turned out to be a total disasser and theyve lost by some estimates more than 20,000 troops, which is twice as many troops as soviet union lost in afghanistan and theyve lost more than 1,000 tanks and many planes, et cetera, et cete
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