Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine after making a publicly televised speech on Thursday. The conflict is threatening to destabilize regional, political and military alliances, and sparking fears that U.S. troops could be drawn into the fighting. We talked to our reporters in London, Ukraine and Washington, D.C., about sanctions, what’s happening on the ground and Putin’s obsession with the former Soviet republic.
Jackeline Luna is a former senior producer for video series. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she interned for Politico, ABC7 and the Mercury News. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a master’s in journalism in May 2018.
Maggie Beidelman is a former senior video director for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2019, Beidelman helped launch AJ+, the digital media channel of Al Jazeera Media Network, where she produced the award-winning series “Untold America.” Beidelman has her master’s in documentary film from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
