What four years of war in Ukraine looks like from Russia
10 March 2026

What four years of war in Ukraine looks like from Russia

State of the World from NPR

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Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine recently passed the four year mark. And over that time it has become the deadliest conflict on the European continent since World War II. Over 1.5 million people are dead, injured or missing, according to western governments and think tanks. Our correspondent in Moscow tries to answer one of the most persistent and difficult questions of this war: do Russians support it?

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