Turning the clock on history
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PUTIN’S WARS
From Chechnya to Ukraine
384pp. Osprey Publishing. £25.
Mark Galeotti
OVERREACH
The inside story of Putin’s war against Ukraine
432pp. Mudlark. £25.
Owen Matthews
INVASION
Russia’s bloody war and Ukraine’s fight for survival
336pp. Guardian Faber. £20.
Luke Harding
By UJE Board Member Serhii Plokhy
The Kremlin’s attempt to recreate the Russian Empire
On December 2021 I accepted an invitation from the former prime minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Honcharuk, to attend a conference that he had co-organized at Stanford. I wanted to hear first-hand what Honcharuk, who had headed Volodymyr Zelensky’s first government, thought about the chances of a major war between Russia and Ukraine — a subject that had been dominating the media for weeks.
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