One year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, beginning a war that has killed or injured thousands of Russians and Ukrainians. The war instigated Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II. But the war started long before that. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, a peninsula in Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. Alain Sanders, professor emeritus at St. Peter’s University and former senior reporter at Time Magazine, analyzes the prior year of fighting as well as what lies ahead for Russians, Ukrainians and the international community.
Reflecting on the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Interview: Alain Sanders, professor emeritus of political science at St. Peter’s University
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.