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‘There's a feeling of depression in Russian cities'
In Russia, the universally pro-Kremlin media have tried to downplay Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting with Donald Trump and European leaders – declaring that 'everyone looked gloomier than a thundercloud'.
While an op-ed in the state news agency RIA Novosti warned that if future overtures didn't go well, there would be no more 'truly generous compromises', even threatening western Ukraine with the headline 'we'll have to go as far as Lviv'.
We were joined by Andrei Soldatov who's one of Russia's leading investigative journalists who fled the country in 2020 and is now on Russia's most wanted list.
His latest book is Our Dear Friends in Moscow – the Inside story of a broken generation.
