Episode 3. Frankly Speaking Podcast Series: Special Focus Russia-Ukraine
22 FEBRUARY 2022: In this third episode of Friends of Europe’s Frankly Speaking podcast, Senior Fellows Jamie Shea and Paul Taylor are joined by guest speaker Colonel Michael Ryan, Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy at the United States Department of Defense. Russian tanks rolled into the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk to the east of the country on Monday night. On Tuesday evening Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the upper house of his parliament to approve "the use of force outside Russian territory". Is this the beginning of a full-scale invasion? What will stop Putin now? Are the sanctions likely to have an impact?