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Welcome to the political scene. I'm Susan Glasser.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds on. The war is now in its third

brutal month as of this week with no end in sight. But in ways large and small, the conflict

has shifted. At the start of the war, the Russian military hoped to seize Kyiv and decapitate

the Ukrainian government, but then quickly retreated in the face of sustained

resistance.

The fiercest fighting now is in the eastern Donbass region, where cities have been and are

continuing to be reduced to rubble.

It now seems likely that the war will descend into a stalemate, a brutal war of attrition,

as the U.S. National Intelligence Director recently put it,

and that the death toll, already in the tens of thousands, will continue to climb.

For some valuable perspective from the ground, we're joined today by my colleague Josh Jaffa,

who for a long time has been the New Yorker's Moscow correspondent. Throughout the war,

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