As the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approaches, one question still puzzles many people - why did Vladimir Putin launch into a war that puts his regime and country at risk of destruction?
It's a question which veteran Moscow-correspondent Owen Matthews has been investigating since the start of the conflict.
His new book Overreach tracks the origins of the war using the accounts of current and former insiders from the Kremlin and its propaganda machine, as well as the testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine.
Photo:
