Reflections on the First Anniversary of Russia’s War in Ukraine and What’s to Come

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” – a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. With an intense humanitarian crisis, inflationary shocks, staggering energy prices and disruptions to global trade, impacts from the war in Ukraine continue to reverberate across world regions. Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors and former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council and Jeffrey Edmonds, Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses and expert on Russia and Eurasia , join our host Kevin Kajiwara for their perspectives on the state of the war as the one year anniversary nears and what comes next as Russia commences its latest offensive.