Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #24–You Do Not Understand Russia With Your Mind

Dr. Yuval Weber, #TeamKrulak's Russia subject matter expert, caught us up on a few things today: the state of play in Kherson, Russia's declaration of martial law for its non-martial special military operation, and Putin's speech yesterday - with Russian literary interpretation - to the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow and its implications on war termination. Come for the Soviet science fiction movie recommendations, stay for Darth Putin's poop emojis.

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We noted a couple of social media pieces in this episode, the first of which - the Soviet-era science fiction movie Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions (with English subtitles) - can be found on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/m3xVdxDWFWU

We also cited photographs of Lieutenant Lyubov Plaksyuk, first female head of an artillery unit in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, standing on the wreckage of Russian vehicles destroyed by her battery; they can bee seen here: https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine/status/1585723759775784964?s=20&t=FLy7dqLly3IIgxEPa71Wyw

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