Polina Ivanova on Russia's New Line

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Polina Ivanova is a Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, and has spent the better part of the last decade reporting from Russia for that publication, for Reuters and elsewhere. She joined Benjamin Wittes to talk through the Russian military press conference that took place on Friday in which the Ministry of Defense seemed to walk back Russia's war aims in the Ukraine conflict. Ben and Polina talked about what the Ministry of Defense said, how different or similar it is from previous Russian statements about what this war is about, whether it was intended for international or domestic consumption, or maybe both, and whether it provides a plausible basis for resolution of the conflict.

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1:24.0	The more casualties you have, the harder it is to say that everything is fine and everything's going to plan the longer this drags on.
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1:35.0	And you know, we've had so many signals both from the battlefield and from politicians that the initial intention was for this to be a three day war.
1:43.0	Or a four day short operation and obviously that hasn't happened.
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