As Putin goes for broke: What next after Ukraine annexation referendums?

It is not just Ukrainians who fear knocks at the door. How many Russians of fighting age have really fled their country? With the Kremlin acknowledging that last week's mass mobilisation of 300,000 "mistakenly" included draftees without prior military experience, we ask if the spattering of protests across the country's eleven time zones matters in the end.

More broadly, what is Vladimir Putin's plan for those mobilised and for his "special military operation" once the Ukrainians continue their current advance inside the 15 percent of their territory that he now considers his? How far will he go?

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