RaveIrish Times (IRE)Rondeaux offers vivid journalistic clarity and unbiased academic reflection ... Nuanced ... Rondeaux concentrates on the abhorrent behaviour of Russia’s mercenary forces in Ukraine and carefully distinguishes between these contract soldiers and the raw, barely-trained conscripts who found themselves in the front lines ... Rondeaux’s academic research and old-fashioned journalistic doorstepping, delving into Wagner’s involvement in the massacres of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha and Irpin, is a key section of the book ... A welcome addition to the growing library on Putin’s Russia.
