As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth day, the New Statesman’s Executive Editor, Foreign, Megan Gibson, interviews the Russian security expert, Mark Galeotti. Galeotti is an honorary professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and the author of The Weaponisation of Everything and We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him Wrong. The two discuss the latest developments of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, what miscalculations Vladimir Putin has made so far and why experts failed to predict the scale of the conflict. If you have a You Ask Us question for the international team, email podcasts@newstatesman.co.ukPodcast listeners can get a special discount on subscriptions to the New Statesman. Visit www.newstatesman.com/podcastoffer to subscribe for just £1 per week.Further reading: Ido Vock reports “Scared, hopeless and silent”: anti-war Russian’s are pessimistic about mass protests. Jeremy Cliffe on the exemplary resilience of Volodymyr Zelensky. Katie Stallard on how Putin has substituted his own interests for those of the Russian state. Mark Galeotti on the dark evolution of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.