In this extended Frontline conversation, defence analyst Eliot Wilson, who used to be a House of Commons clerk assisting parliamentary delegations to NATO, examines how Vladimir Putin is driving the Russian economy into the ground with his spending on the invasion of Ukraine. He explains why it is proving so hard to bring Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, and why China has a stake in the war.

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