"There is going to be a point at which it is impossible to hide the cost of this war because someone is going to know someone whose son died."
We're joined by UMass Amherst Political Science and Legal Studies professor Lauren McCarthy to analyze the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a sudden escalation of an ongoing conflict in the former Soviet republic's Donbass region. This feature was produced by WMUA news editor Rebeca Pereira. It is the first installment of a three-part series on the war in Ukraine.