Guest: Judy Dempsey, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe

As Russia rains rockets down on a devastated Ukraine in retaliation for land victories in the Kherson region and for attacking the bridge to Crimea, the war trudged past its eight month with no real sign of diplomatic efforts to come to a peaceful conclusion. As allies try to send more weapons and support to Ukraine, Russia is trying to rally and reinforce its troops by calling up more civilians to join the fight. How does this conflict end?

This episode was produced by Alexis Green, Paul Marques and Raju Mudhar.

Audio sources: CBC, BBC, CPAC, PBS and CNN

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