330. Anna Arutunyan - Moscow Waged a Covert Invasion of Ukraine Using Rogues, Businessmen and Mercenaries

The Russian government’s deniable use of rogues, businessmen,
enthusiasts, mercenaries, and political technologists confounded
policymakers as Moscow waged a covert invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Did
the war in Crimea and Donbas reveal the Kremlin’s ‘hybrid war’ playbook –
or did Moscow quickly lose control over the forces it had unleashed?
What’s clear, is that the international community dramatically
misunderstood the very nature of this war and was unprepared for the
Kremlin’s sudden and brutal escalation to full-scale war in 2022.
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Anna Arutunyan is a Russian American journalist, analyst, and author.
She is a global fellow at the Wilson Centre. Her acclaimed research and
analysis focusses on Putin’s volunteer militants, the pro-Russian
insurgency in Donbas, and the war it escalated into in eastern Ukraine.
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BOOKS:
Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine
(2022)
The Putin Mystique (2014)
The Media in Russia (2009)
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