Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
The sharpest minds and analysis on the frontline of the war in Ukraine - and related conflicts - on Times Radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Putin’s military strategy flawed as Ukraine wipes out Russian troops | Sean Bell
“Ukraine has said, ‘Right, if you want to do a pincer movement, you have to go through the fields, which makes you very vulnerable, and we will take you out.’”
It is “thoroughly miserable” for the Russians on the frontline, as their military strategy is undermined by Ukrainian drone capabilities, says former Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell.
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Zelensky sends 1000 drones to hit Putin's refineries in 'message to Trump' | Prof. Robert Pape
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Putin’s ‘stuck in a dangerous place’ as Ukraine scorches Russian economy | Bill Browder
“The Ukrainians have a way of fighting back to scorch his economy.”
Putin is “stuck” in a “dangerous place” as he finds himself fighting against a resilient and adaptive Ukraine, says Sir William Browder.
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Kyiv smashes Putin's refineries as Starshield system restored to Ukraine | Scott Lucas
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Trump's 'schizophrenic' policymaking can't save Putin | Orysia Lutsevych
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'Russia is in big trouble' as deep strikes hit Yandex and Putin's bots | Maj. Gen. Mick Ryan
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'Trump's been played' again as Putin's diesel supply likely already destroyed by Ukraine | Tim Ash
Trump's deal to buy Russian oil won't make a dent in the US fuel crisis even if any Russian fuel arrives in America at all, Economist Tim Ash tells Philip Ingram on Frontline.
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Putin’s drones decimated by Ukraine’s new AI robot guns | Yuriy Sak
“They are using AI to identify targets in the sky, to calculate the trajectory, to calculate where it’s going. Much more efficient than the human eye.”
New robot turrets positioned along Kyiv’s bridges are shooting down Putin’s drones with great efficiency, says Yuriy Sak, former adviser to Ukraine’s minister of defence.
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Will Putin Aim to Create a Land Corridor to Moldova? | Frontline
“It does look like Vladimir Putin is intent on linking up mainland Russia, if you will, through southern Odesa into Moldova.”
Michael Bociurkiw and Michael Bociurkiw discuss the recent Russian strikes near the Moldova border, and what they could reveal about Moscow’s ambitions in southern Ukraine.
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Putin’s cronies know their troops are ‘ineffective’ | Amb. Volker
“Inside the Kremlin, they know that Ukraine is able to fight back, and that’s why they’re escalating their hybrid attacks against NATO.”
Russia knows it is slowly losing on the battlefield, as it is losing troops and replacing them with poorly trained men, says Ambassador Kurt Volker, former US special envoy to Ukraine.
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Putin’s troops fooled by a Trojan horse in Operation Vivaldi | Shaun Pinner
“They parachuted ground vehicles in behind enemy lines and drove them.”
Journalist and British Army veteran Shaun Pinner describes how Ukrainian troops managed to drive an armoured personnel carrier right up to Russian defences as part of Operation Vivaldi in Lyman.
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Putin’s people fear China’s political takeover | Ian Williams
“There is a fear that, look across the border, there is an economically successful, teaming in population terms, rival. At what point does China seek to turn its economic domination into political domination.”
There is “a lot of fear in Russia” as the expanse in the Far East closest to China becomes more economically deprived and loses its population, says China expert, author and journalist Ian Williams.
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Putin’s army is in ‘survival mode’ as fortress belt assault collapses | George Barros
“The Russian idea of encircling the fortress belt within the next six months—that’s not going to happen.”
Russia’s 25th Combined Arms Army is in “survival mode”, trying to establish a new defensive line along the Zherebets River, says The ISW’s George Barros.
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Frontline footage shows Ukrainian commander's rescue under Russian drone attack | Maxim Tucker
Lieutenant Vladyslav Polskyi has won Ukraine’s highest military honour for rescuing two wounded soldiers in the ‘kill zone’. Maxim Tucker discusses his time speaking with the former teacher and his unit in Ukraine on Frontline.
Read Maxim's interview with Polskyi on The Times: https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/ukraine-dispatch-teacher-hero-xkv7qkrk3
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Putin’s people ‘are starting to get angry!’: Ukraine's spy chief reveals intelligence | Maxim Tucker
“Discontent is starting to rumble among the population.”
Ukraine’s new spy chief has received intelligence suggesting that the Russian people are beginning to express their anger publicly over the war in Ukraine, says The Times’ Maxim Tucker.
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Putin ‘deliberately targeted’ train with former UK PM | Lord Ricketts
“They were certainly deliberately targeting to kill the people, to destroy the train, or at the very least to send a very intimidating signal that it is dangerous for Western VIPs to go into Ukraine.”
Russia tries to “choke off” constant Western visits to Ukraine by targeting Boris Johnson’s rail route to Poland, says Lord Ricketts.
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Putin’s self-deception is driving Russia towards operational disaster | Keir Giles
“If you have a command structure that thinks Russia is already in charge of a piece of territory and sends more people in, they die in their hundreds.”
Putin’s self-deception is causing operational setbacks for the Russian military and making the prospect of a ceasefire even more remote, says Keir Giles.
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Putin loses major position in Ukraine’s biggest operation since Kursk | Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
“Ukraine has managed to attack Russia where it is weak.”
Ukraine has managed to suppress Russian drones using manpower and armour in Lyman and hold its position, says former British Army colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.
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Witkoff and Kushner’s ‘doomed diplomacy’ plays into Putin’s trap | Scott Lucas
“Witkoff plays right into it … The idea that you’ve been spun by the Kremlin I don’t know how many times is at the top of your list?”
Witkoff and Kushner’s visit to Moscow was openly mocked by the Russians, who called their meeting with Putin “diplomacy of the doomed”, says Professor Scott Lucas.
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‘Knuckleheads’ Witkoff and Kushner’s Kyiv visit was ‘embarrassing’ | Lt Gen Ben Hodges
“Where is the secretary of state, Mr Rubio? … He is absolutely AWOL.”
Witkoff and Kushner’s visit to Kyiv was “hard to watch” after they sucked up to Putin during their previous meeting in Moscow, says Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.
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'Putin is completely mad' | Anna Zafesova
“Putin's pursuing his own delirious ideas... first he invented history, now he’s inventing biology,”
A total consensus is forming across Russia that Putin has gone completely mad, as an exploding economy pushes the country to the edge with zero political mechanisms to remove him, says journalist Anna Zafesova.
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Putin suffers major operational blows in Fortress Belt and Kinburn Spit | Maj. Gen. Chip Chapman
“The Russians have had a miscellaneous ‘F’ failure there.”
Ukrainian firepower and drone control over logistical lines of communication have put 2,500 Russian troops in a “world of hurt” on the Kinburn Spit and around the Fortress Belt, says former British Army Major General Chip Chapman.
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Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine | Mikhail Khodorkovsky
He was once Russia's richest man. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was thrown in jail for urging democratic change in Russia and since getting out and leaving Russia more than a decade ago, he has continued the fight.
He says he was hopeful for nearly imminent change in Russia before the war started, but now thinks it will be a good 20 years before we see that "Happy Russia of the Future" Alexei Navalny always dreamed about. And Khodorkovsky believes Ukraine has ALREADY won the war.
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Putin craves support, but the mood in Russia has turned | Exiled politician Boris Nadezhdin
On this episode of Frontline, Amy Kellogg sits down with Putin critic and exiled Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin for an extended interview. Boris was perhaps one of the the last anti-Russian politician not behind bars until he decided to flee the country earlier this summer under pressure.
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Putin resorts to "mystic" measures as Russians turn against "broken" economy | Robert Fox
Robert Fox, Defence Editor for the Evening Standard, talks to the Frontline's Philip Ingram on Putin's election troubles,
Russia's "broken" economy and iconicalism on the Frontline, where Putin ordered the remains of 14th-century Russian prince, Dmitry Donskoy, to be taken to the battlefield as a spiritual boost.
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Putin's Black Sea fleet at risk after Storm Shadow missile threat | Jimmy Rushton
"When a country is fighting this sort of war, that's a really big incentive to get things done pretty quickly."
Ukraine has been given access to critical British missile blueprints says Jimmy Rushton. He analyses the situation on the ground, the morale in Ukraine and whether there is a British security threat from Russia.
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Will ‘systemic crisis in government" force Zelensky to face election calls | Orysia Lutsevych
Orysia Lutsevych breaks down just how deep corruption runs in Ukraine right now, what is really being done about it and what axed Defense Minister Fedorov's call for new elections is really about.
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Why US Intelligence Is WRONG About Russia Attacking NATO | Mark Galeotti
Kate Gerbeau is joined by Mark Galeotti to discuss all the latest on the war in Ukraine including why it might be too pre-emptive to talk about Russian attacks on NATO.
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Europe cannot ‘put up with Putin’s rubbish’ anymore or he will target NATO
Former army officer and military analyst Major General Mick Ryan speaks with Kate Gerbeau about the 'most uncomfortable' moment of Zelenksy's presidency and why Europe must take serious action against Russian drone incursions.
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Putin cornered as Ukraine turns up the heat on the Russian people | Cormac Smith
“For four years, the Russian people were insulated from this war, but over the past six months, the war has been brought home to them.”
Ukraine is putting “the feet of the Russian people… to the fire” through its campaign against Russian oil refineries and Wildberries logistics centres, says Cormac Smith, a former British diplomat and adviser to Ukraine’s foreign minister.
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Putin’s fatal lack of strategic ingenuity could cost him the war | Aaron Edwards
“It’s quite imaginative, the things they’ve [Ukraine] managed to carry out.”
Russia’s failure to learn and adapt its special operations tactics has put Putin on the back foot, says academic and global security expert Dr Aaron Edwards.
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Putin’s crisis deepens as Ukraine launches huge assault on Moscow | Robert Fox
“That would’ve really hit public opinion. It’s like saying you can’t get anything from Amazon.”
Putin is under pressure as Ukraine’s largest attack on Moscow, combined with hints of full mobilisation, leads to dwindling public support, says Robert Fox, defence editor at the Evening Standard and writer for the i paper.
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Putin’s ageing circle of command is a sinking ship | Nikolai Petrov
“The only way to keep this system afloat is to construct it in a manual way and replace the old guys with the new generation.”
Putin must replace his management system to survive, as his inner circle is now “of his age or older”, says political scientist and analyst Nikolai Petrov.
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Putin could face oligarch uproar as Ukraine strikes the heart of Russia | Cormac Smith
“Drafting troops from St Petersburg and Moscow would be a massive gamble.”
The strikes on St Petersburg and Moscow are making Putin’s grip on power “more tenuous”, as the cities are home to the Russian leader’s largest support base: the oligarchs, says Cormac Smith, a former British diplomat to Ukraine.
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Putin’s nightmare: Ukraine demolishes Russia’s A2/AD and targets Crimea’s grid | Maj Gen Chip Chapman
“Crimea is becoming a burden for Russia.”
Ukraine has paralysed life in Crimea with its recent attacks on energy grids and infrastructure, increasing the burden on Putin, says former Major General Chip Chapman.
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Putin left with no way out as Ukraine leaves Crimea in a deadlock | George Barros
“These longer to medium range strike drones are able to pick off the Russian trucks and trains.”
Ukraine isolates Crimea through a thoughtout campaign which denies Russian land forces freedom of movement and freedom of manoeuvre, says The ISW’s George Barros.
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Putin’s war machine at breaking point as Ukraine’s ‘Darwinian innovation’ excels
On today’s episode of Frontline, Kate Gerbeau speaks to Major General Richard Shirreff about Ukraine’s “Darwinian innovation” and he reacts to the breaking news of the UK defence minister’s resignation.
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Putin ’terrified’ as he cowers in Kremlin, fearing Ukrainian hit | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
“I understand Putin hasn’t been outside, as it were, for weeks, if not months now.”
Putin is “terrified” of venturing outside of his “highly defended palaces or the Kremlin” as he fears being taken out by Ukraine, says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the author of ‘Tank Command.’
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Putin's peace narrative 'rendered useless' by Zelensky's cunning move | Scott Lucas
Professor Scott Lucas & Maddie Hale
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Putin fears assassination as Russian outrage skyrockets | Maj Gen Chip Chapman
“Every authoritarian regime has an internet kill switch which they can employ, but the population do get generally quite disturbed when those things happen and it can exacerbate your economic model.”
Putin’s paranoia is “elevated” as outrage from internet blackouts in Russia sparks fears of assassination for its president, says former Major General Chip Chapman.
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