Russia’s Empire of Ruins
From blackouts in Kherson to water shortages in Luhansk, Russia’s new imperial domains in Ukraine’s occupied territories are in turmoil.
Four years into its full-scale invasion – and 12 years into its war against Ukraine – Russia controls roughly 19 per cent of Ukraine’s sovereign territory. It has declared these lands ‘forever Russian’, staged referenda at gunpoint, and plastered cities with billboards proclaiming ‘reunification’ and a return to ‘normal life’.
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