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Podcast: State of the World from NPR
Episode: How Life is Transforming in Russian Occupied Ukraine
Description: We talk to a Russia expert who is keeping tabs on what is going on in the roughly 18% of Ukraine that Russia now controls. He says that an "administrative occupation" seeks to incorporate the people that live in those areas into Russian politics and culture. And that with U.S. and Western aid for Ukraine in doubt, there is a chance these areas could be lost for good.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy