Prof David Marples: Putin’s true motives for invading Ukraine - a podcast by RNZ

With a full-scale invasion of Ukraine now underway, Putin has claimed the attack is “a special military operation” to defend the populations in the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk from a “genocidal” regime. Marples is a professor of Russian and East European history at the University of Alberta.

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