What happens when there is that knock at the door? Moscow's hastily-organised referendums in occupied parts of Ukraine – complete with house-to-house searches of ballot recipients – take the concept of "get out the vote" to a whole new level. We ask about turnout numbers that already beggar belief and what happens after Vladimir Putin's Friday address scheduled before a joint session of the Russian parliament.
It is not just Ukrainians who fear knocks at the door. How many Russians of fighting age have really fled their country? With the Kremlin acknowledging that last week's mass mobilisation of 300,000 "mistakenly" included draftees without prior military experience, we ask if the spattering of protests across the country's eleven time zones matters in the end.
More broadly, what is Vladimir Putin's plan for those mobilised and for his "special military operation" once the Ukrainians continue their current advance inside the 15 percent of their territory that he now considers his? How far will he go?
