How Putin is trying to salvage his "special military operation" | To the point

Using sham referendums, annexations, and a large conscription drive Vladimir Putin is trying to salvage his “special military operation” - It means that this illegal war on Ukraine has now arrived in the middle of Russian society. But opposition seems to be growing, protests are increasing, and thousands of Russian men of fighting age are fleeing conscription – a true exodus of well-educated men has begun. They refuse to die for Putin’s imperial ambitions. We ask: Protests and mass flight: is Russia turning on Putin?

Maria Makeeva, a journalist from Russia, currently living and working in Berlin and editor-in-chief of the Russian language TV Channel Ost-West
Daniel Brössler, Correspondent for the German broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung and former correspondent in several Eastern European countries.