“This is not a bluff”: would Vladimir Putin risk nuclear war?
The Russian leader threatens nuclear retaliation while signalling he will annex swathes of Ukraine.
Katie Stallard
Katie Stallard is senior editor, China and global affairs, of the New Statesman. She is the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea, and a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC.
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