OVERREACH is both the title of the book and of chapter 9. The idea of overreach does not define the book, but this chapter describes the over-ambitious and possibly deluded Russian position. It begins with a Ukrainian soldiers’ joke: “We used to believe the Russians had the second-best army in the world. Now we know that they have the second-best army in Ukraine.” After a year of the conflict, the world wonders how the second best army in Ukraine (the Russian) is doing. And it is that the Russians are fighting a 20th century war in the 21st century. NATO is providing kyiv with modern weapons and although they are not tanks or planes, they are missiles capable of destroying tanks and planes. Using the accounts of current and former insiders from the Kremlin and its propaganda machine, the testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine, Overreach tells the story not only of the war’s causes but how the first six months unfolded. Matthews was educated at Westminster School and studied Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. [6] Journalism [ edit ] Resistance and Repression – Propaganda – Sanctions – Exodus: The Russians – Exodus: The Ukrainians.

The Rival Armies – The Kadyrovtsy – The Donbas Troops – Wagner – The Russian Steamroller – Lend-Lease. Orthodox) สุดขั้วที่เอามาใช้ในการรุกรานยูเครนได้ยังไง ทำไมปูตินจึงสั่งให้สร้างอนุสาวรีย์ของ Vladimir the Great หน้าเครมลินในปี 2016 และเชิ่อมตัวเองกับประวัติศาสตร์ช่วงนั้น คน “วงใน” ที่เขาไว้ใจทั้งในและนอกเครมลินมีใครบ้าง ทำไมนักแสดงตลกจึงสามารถชนะการเลือกตั้งเป็นประธานาธิบดียูเครน ทำไมรัสเซียจึงบุกไปยึดครองไครเมียในปี 2014 และทำไมอเมริกาและอังกฤษจึงต่อต้านท่อส่งก๊าซ Nord Stream จากรัสเซียมาเยอรมนี มหกรรมโฆษณาชวนเชื่อ ปฏิบัติการข้อมูลข่าวสาร การยึดกุมสื่อในรัสเซียทำงานยังไง ภาวะที่ทุกคนต้องแยกกันอยู่ในช่วงโรคระบาด COVID-19 ส่งผลต่อความคิดและการวางแผนบุกยูเครนของปูตินอย่างไรบ้าง This is a grim conclusion – and very different from the cheerleading optimism that has informed much of the conflict’s coverage so far. Indeed, parts of this book left me wanting a stiff drink, like Matthews’s old Moscow pals. But as a historical rough draft of this century’s first major conflict, it’s compelling – if uncomfortable – reading. Part III - Pyrokinesis. - everything that validated the wars beginning and what has followed, to Spring 2023.

Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine

This means that the book ends on more pessimistic note than is in retrospect justified. In September the Ukrainian army was pushing to recapture as much land as possible before winter set in and Europe froze under a natural gas embargo. As I read this in late January 2023 Europe hasn't frozen, wholesale gas prices have fallen and most Western nations are tripping over themselves to donate heavy weapons to Ukraine. By mid-March, even Matthews himself has to leave for a while, fearing that his 19-year-old son, a Russian passport holder, may get drafted. Yet amidst this chaos and personal upheaval, he has produced a book that is not merely the first full account of the war, but may set the standard for some time to come. Owen Matthews 'Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America' ". Pushkin House. The use of second-hand sources, though, is the only way to provide a proper overview: in a war this big, no reporter can be everywhere. And besides, much of this book’s value is in exploring the war’s deeper roots. Protests flared up across Russia in the first day of the war and were met with an overwhelming police presence. A week later a new law carried a 15-years jail term for spreading misinformation about the war. Russian TV went into overdrive, denouncing NATO and the West. Russians left Russia. Ukrainians left Ukraine.

His inner clique, it seems, knew the war would isolate Moscow internationally, but figured it was still worth it. By turning Russia into somewhere that no liberal wanted to live, they could ensure power passed to their own children, many of whom already hold top government jobs. A country where millions died in socialism’s name now resembles the hereditary Tsarist aristocracy before it. Part II - Warpath - prelude to the invasion, including section devoted to was the military movements a bluff or the real thing? The two men in the hall who had the most detailed knowledge of actual events and conditions in Ukraine came in for the roughest ride. Dmitry Kozak, the Kremlin’s on-the-ground point man for relations with the LDNR and Crimea, had grown up in Ukraine. After a wordy exposition where he admitted that Kyiv was not ready to re-incorporate the LDNR on the terms set out in Minsk-2, Kozak attempted a real discussion on the future of the Donbas republics. But Putin brusquely cut him off, twice.

Even Ukrainian Russian speakers do not like to join Putin’s Russia. After all, they are much richer than the Russians. This chapter discusses a selection of topics and people current in 2015. Three people were influential with the Kremlin: the far-right philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, the ultranationalist Christian oligarch Konstantin Malfeev and the PR media monk Metropolitan Tikhon. Other people include Sergei Glazyev, who linked Orthodox ultra-nationalism to the Kremlin and PR guru Vladislav Surkov. Topics include Gazprom and the weaponising of Russian gas, and Russia’s war in Syria. In Ukraine, mention is made of the actor and future president, Volodymr Zelensky and the Oligarch and former president Proshenko.