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The sharpest minds and analysis on the frontline of the war in Ukraine - and related conflicts - on Times Radio.
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“This is existential.”Putin’s insistence that the Donbas be signed over to Russia in peace negotiations highlights his inability to take the “heavily fortified fortress”, says former British diplomat Cormac Smith. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“We’re getting closer to autonomy at the end, so if the Russians try to break the connection between the pilot and the drone, the drone can continue on.”Ukraine is “winning the drone war” as it moves closer to finishing “autonomous drones”, says military historian and professor Phillips O’Brien. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“He’s recognising desperately that he’s not winning on the battlefield.”Putin’s recent attacks on Lviv show his desperation, as his battlefield failures have forced the Russian leader into a “dilemma”, says former US ambassador to Ukraine William B Taylor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Russia's failures at Kupiansk will have Putin questioning his generals capability as Trump's more aggressive stance on the world stage could threaten the Kremlin regime, says The Times' Michael Binyon on Frontline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“This is bread and butter operations for the US coastguard and the US military forces involved, they can do this in their sleep.”US military forces managed to seize the Russian-flagged oil tanker in a “simple takeover”, says former royal marine James Glancy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“It demonstrates that the Russians really are powerless to really do anything about this.”Trump is “finally enforcing sanctions” as he seizes a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic, says Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“Is anything really unravelling at a speed on the Ukrainian side, with such significance on the Russian side that we’re likely to get to some point where either Ukraine collapses or Russia collapses. The answer to that is no.”Putin’s belief that he is “operating at pace” is far fetched as the small Russian advances fail to make any major breakthroughs, says Major General Chip Chapman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Putin's claims of taking Kupiansk resulted in Russian humiliation as a Ukrainian counter offensive has left one hundred of Kremlin's troops trapped in the centre, says Jimmy Rushton on Frontline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1“The Russian people have a high degree of apathy when it comes to Putin.”Putin’s grip on the Russian people is vulnerable to just “snapping” as they wake up to impacts of oil shortages, says former US special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“One by one we can take you out.”Ukraine is “causing Putin pain” by taking out Russia’s oil infrastructure and strategic bomber fleet, says former Air Vice Marshal Sean Bell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“They’re time limited.”Putin has failed to gain more than 0.9 per cent of Ukrainian territory this year, but has lost 400,000 Russians in the process, says Scott Lucas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Russia's attempt to surge to put pressure on Kyiv over peace talks is coming at a high casualty cost, says Maxim Tucker the Times' Ukraine correspondent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“The frontline has not collapsed, despite what they want us to believe.”Ukraine’s MOD says they have taken back about 20 per cent of Pokrovsk, says former British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Russia have to reckon with the fact that Donald Trump has three more years in the white House. Is he going to be a lame duck president in a year's time?"Putin's scepticism for Trump's appeal to Russia and favourable peace deals is based in his mistrust of MAGA's ability to avoid collapse, warns John Lough, Head of Foreign Policy at the New Eurasian Strategies Centre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Kyiv and the Europeans held out. They don't accept the plan and importantly, Marco Rubio, who does not like the Witkoff - Kushner plan, he's the head of the US delegation." US figures are worried about Steve Witkoff's role in peace talks after leaks suggested he had been coaching Russian representatives on manipulating Trump, Prof. Scott Lucas discusses the latest on Frontline with Louis Sykes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“If the US, along with Europe, pressurize Russia more, and we will continue as well with our deep strikes…this may bring Russia to the negotiating table whether they want it or not.”Putting pressure on Putin’s economy could be the key to Ukraine winning the war as it's in “a very poor state at the moment” and has no hope of improving, says former advisor to the minister of defence of Ukraine, Yuriy Sak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“The tone of the call is viewing Russia as a partner… and Ukraine as an object...that is troubling.”The leaked transcript of Witkoff reportedly ‘coaching’ Russian officials adds to the “dysfunctionality” being shown by Trump's administration over the peace plan, says former US special envoy to Ukraine Ambassador Kurt Volker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“The Russians are pretty largely stuck… and that’s pretty uncomfortable for Putin.”Putin may be “overstretching himself” by trying to stir up trouble in Nato countries while not making any advances in Ukraine, says former British ambassador Lord Ricketts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"How does this plan come out when there's little chance it's going to be accepted?"Russia's "secret" peace plan drawn up with Steve Witkoff looks unlikely to succeed as the White House begins to push back against Putin's "wishlist", Prof. Scott Lucas tells Kate Gerbeau on Frontline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“He is literally pushing them off the balcony.”“Things aren’t all rosy in Putin’s garden”, says for British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton Gordon, after the Russian leader betrays his closest men by declaring them as foreign agents. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ukraine constrained by immediate NATO membership . . . (1) Putin has described many times, his personal - and Russia’s historic - paranoia of Russia being invaded, particularly from the West - and now the encroachment of NATO - as the main reason for his war in Ukraine. No-one could imagine that President Trump would sanction, allow, approve, NATO or any of its member countries, to instigate an unprovoked, unilateral, invasion, and to attack Russia. With Ukraine outside NATO, no-one - not even President Trump - has such a veto over Kyiv, or the necessary control, to prevent Ukraine from ever making such an attack on Russia. With Ukraine allowed to immediately join NATO, Ukraine would be bound by all the obligations and the constraints imposed on established member states . . . which should satisfy Moscow.
Ukraine constrained by immediate NATO membership . . . (2) With Ukraine allowed to immediately join NATO, Ukraine would in-turn be provided with the only realistic guarantee that would ensure their own long-term security . . . which would satisfy Kyiv. If President Trump can not convince Putin of all the above logic, then the President is not the “deal maker” he likes to believe himself to be.