This following interview offers some valuable historical and political perspective to help understand the roots of the current conflict.

On this episode of Going Underground, host Afshin Rattansi challenges the former Vice-Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of Russia’s Duma Natalya Narochnitskaya over the Russian invasion Ukraine. The challenges posed to the former Russian politician include the Kremlin assuring the world Russia was not going to invade Ukraine, whether Vladimir Putin’s Russia is acting like the US and NATO in their wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, the painting of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government and part of the population as neo-Nazis, why Putin didn’t answer Zelensky’s efforts for talks before the invasion, civilian casualties in Ukraine and more. Watch:

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