Russia's Talk of War: Even Putin is Joining In

President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials have started using the word "war" to describe the conflict in Ukraine, which began in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine's Maidan Revolution and Russia annexed Crimea. The Kremlin had previously refused to call it a war, instead using euphemisms such as "a special military operation". The creeping acceptance of war even in public gives a sense of how the Kremlin's perceptions have changed - and may give an taste of the future after more than 15 months of the most deadly war in Europe since World War Two.