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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.
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- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Are Ukrainian deep strikes putting pressure on the Kremlin?
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on how Ukrainian deep strikes are putting pressure on the Kremlin while Putin’s forces fail to advance Olesia Horianinova, Co-Founder…
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Putin mulls last-ditch with Kremlin reshuffle and goes underground amidst Iran threat | John Foreman
“There are people saying one of the lessons the Kremlin has reiterated to it is the strength of American air power with what happened against the Ayatollah in…
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‘Putin is afraid’: The Russian leader avoids Kremlin as he fears for his own life | Sir Bill Browder
“These are the acts of a scared little man.” Vladimir Putin has switched off wifi access in Moscow and is avoiding the Kremlin by “hiding in a bunker…
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Putin's War could be a mistake as casualties are rising!
Daniel Tkiie, Ukrainian news anchor and TV host, on how rising RUssian casualties are making putin’s war less and less popular among his people Scott Lucas…
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Putin’s full-scale war has backfired against his own people | Daniel Tkiie
“Russian territory is so large that Ukrainian drones can evade Russian air defences.” Putin’s full-scale war against Ukraine has “backfired against Russia” as…
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Putin loses fifth member of his inner circle | Diane Francis
“This is about the fifth person in his inner circle who was about to be arrested for corruption.” Putin’s problems amount as his éminence grise, Vladislav…
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Putin’s weaknesses exposed as Russian troops are wiping each other out | Robert Fox
“The weaknesses they have shown are very serious indeed…the quality of troops and fighting spirit, despite all their deprivations, the Ukrainian side is…
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Putin’s inner circle stumped by Ukraine’s drone attack ingenuity | Eliot Wilson
“In terms of ability, competence, sophistication, Ukraine is streaks ahead.” Ukraine’s ability to develop sophisticated strategies with their drone attacks on…
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Putin cornered as Ukraine brings the fight inside Russia | Amb. Kurt Volker
“It’s bringing the fight a lot closer to the Russian military inside Russia.” Ukraine’s newly developed long-range missile packages have breached Putin’s walls…
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How Putin 'lost territory' in Ukraine in February as comms crisis deepens
Russia continues to lose Ukrainian territory omn the southern fronts after Starlink bans sent Russian logistics and comms into crisis says Prof. Scott Lucas on…
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Putin on the back foot as Ukraine develops and upgrades cruise missiles | Matthew Savill
“Now we’re seeing Ukrainian cruise missiles come online...there’s the possibility they can get the upper hand again.” Ukraine is developing their capabilities…
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Putin 'worried about his survival' as Russia's plan to take Donetsk collapses
Putin will be worried about his survival as talks and military offensives fail to hand the Donbas to Russia, warns John Lough from the New Eurasian Strategies…
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Bringing Putin to his knees: Russian generals will say 'enough is enough' | Michael Bociurkiw
“Putin’s generals or his elites around him may see that enough is enough and he could be forced out.” Targeting Russia’s oil supply will bring Putin “to his…
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Putin’s Black Sea Fleet crippled by Ukraine’s drones | Diane Francis & Orysia Lutsevych on 4 years of war
“They have been able to sink the Russian navy in the Black Sea, without a navy, but with sea drones.” Russia expert Diane Francis and Chatham House’s Orysia…
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Putin’s loosing 50,000 troops a month: Ben Hodges, Maxim Tucker & Yuriy Sak analyse 4 years of war
“Let the Russians brag about their inexorable advance all they want while Ukrainians figure out how to slaughter them to the tune of 40-50,000 a month.” Former…
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Putin’s regime under mounting pressure after he loses 32,000 troops in one month | Maxim Tucker
“That’s a huge figure which is, at the moment, more than Russia’s recruitment rate.” Putin could be forced into difficult decisions that could threaten his…
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Putin’s offensive stalls on the frontline as Starlink shutdown slams the brakes | Mick Ryan
“It really caused a breakdown in the cohesion of many units, which meant they couldn’t coordinate either the attacks against the Ukrainians or defence against…
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Putin faces checkmate in trilateral talks with Trump after Kremlin ally's outburst | Bill Browder
"If he sits down with Zelensky and Trump, then it becomes obvious who the person is who doesn't want peace, and that's Vladimir Putin," Russian Foreign…
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Putin facing 'internal divisions' as Kremlin fears Trump has abandoned Alaska agreements on Ukraine
"Once Putin takes a step back, that's it he's done." Putin is facing "internal divisions" after Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov voiced concerns that…
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Putin’s Shahed wiped out by Ukrainian drones | Chip Chapman
“A small number of cheap, AI-guided attack and interceptor drones … can knock down Shahed systems.” Putin’s Shahed systems are being wiped out by innovative…
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Putin ‘wagers the Russian economy’ as his army is ‘getting degraded by the day’ | Diane Francis
“He is wagering the Russian economy in this war, not the army any more.” Putin’s army is “flagging and failing, and getting degraded by the day”, which is…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin’s ‘rattled’ as Europe moves to target Russian ships | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
“Why didn’t we do this two or three years ago?” The Kremlin is “rattled” as Europe signs an agreement stating that vessels which change their flag will be…
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Putin’s generals are hiding information from the Russian leader
“There is a slight issue that there may be a restricted flow of information to Putin.” As Putin has grown older and “more autocratic”, the intelligence…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin faces 'existential' crisis after failing to take Donbas for 12 years | Cormac Smith
“This is existential.” Putin’s insistence that the Donbas be signed over to Russia in peace negotiations highlights his inability to take the “heavily…
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Putin is losing the ‘drone war’ | Phillips O’Brien
“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.”…
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Putin’s Donbas failures have plunged him into a desperate dilemma | William B Taylor
“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…
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Putin doesn't trust his generals as Trump's 'imperialism' puts Kremlin regime at risk
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…
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Putin’s Russian-flagged oil tanker was seized in ‘simple takeover’ | Former Royal Marine
“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…
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‘Putin is really powerless’: Trump seizes Russian oil tanker | Lt Gen Ben Hodges
“It demonstrates that the Russians really are powerless to really do anything about this.” Trump is “finally enforcing sanctions” as he seizes a…
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Putin’s delusional as Russia fails to unravel Ukraine’s military operations | Maj Gen Chip Chapman
“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…
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Hundreds of Russian troops still trapped in Kupiansk in 'humiliation' to Putin
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…
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Putin’s grip on Russia is about to snap | Amb. Kurt Volker
“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…
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Putin is in ‘pain’ as Ukraine hurt Russian assets | Sean Bell
“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…
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Putin fails to take more than one per cent of Ukrainian territory | Scott Lucas
“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…
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Putin's troops creep over 'other russian bodies' as Ukraine's 63rd Bridgade claims high kill count
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…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin’s Pokrovsk campaign fails as Russia loses territory | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
“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…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin fears Trump's administration will collapse dooming his invasion of Ukraine
"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?"…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Steve Witkoff's plan rejected as Marco Rubio sends new peace proposal to Putin
"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…
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Putin’s failing economy could be the breaking point to force Russia to the table | Yuriy Sak
“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…
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Trump’s administration is ‘dysfunctional’: Witkoff leak shows cracks in the White House
“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’…
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Putin is ’stuck’ as he overstretches himself with Nato havoc | Lord Ricketts
“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…
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Putin's 'wishlist' peace plan begins to collapse as Rubio rejects Witkoff's 'unacceptable' plan
"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…
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Putin’s turning on his inner circle: ‘He’s pushing them off the balcony’ | Hamish de Bretton Gordon
“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…
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Putin’s Pokrovsk campaign is ‘an absolute failure’ | Shaun Pinner
“Putin has annexed more territory than he’s actually got.” Putin will find it very difficult to get past Pokrovsk as his 12-month campaign is destroyed by…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
'This is a major escalation' Russia bombs Polish train line says PM Donald Tusk | Sean Bell
"Russia knows full well that there's lots of supplies coming to it from the West and inevitably wants to target that." Bombing attacks on a Polish train and…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin’s regime: ’The end is nigh’ | Diane Francis
“Lavrov may have fallen out of a window.” If Putin’s scapegoat, Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, has disappeared it shows the “end of the regime is…
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Putin’s Pokrovsk operation is ‘bleeding Russia dry’ | Cormac Smith
“Pokrovsk is bleeding Russia dry.” Russia is losing 700-800 men a day as Ukraine manages to keep all supply corridors to the city open, says former British…
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Putin losing 1008 troops a day as he fails to take Pokrovsk | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
“They believe Russia has lost 350,00 casualties this years so far, and they are currently losing 1008 a day.” Ukraine is eliminating Russian troops in Pokrovsk…
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Putin sends anti-corruption Russian officials on ‘suicide missions’ | Mi6's former director of operations
“When people raise objections to this, within the military, they are sent on what is in effect a suicide mission.” Putin’s officers are engaged in “massive…
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Putin’s regime under threat after 'piling pressures' from Ukraine oil refinery attacks | Orysia Lutsevych
“The fact that Russian economy relies of rent payments and internal corruption that comes form oil and gas industries will have an impact on the system.”…
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Putin’s Russia may have to live like North Korea as Ukraine can implode its economy | Maj Gen Chip Chapman
“Russia is no more than a gas station with nukes masquerading as a country. If you get rid of the gas station part…there is a potential way of imploding the…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin's 'unpredictable' nuclear powered missile fails to deter Trump and Ukraine
"Not to completely gainsay that this thing has any utility, but it feels to some a little bit like a vanity project." Putin's nuclear powered missile test has…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
'Swearing' Trump yells at Zelensky but leaves Putin with little to offer in Budapest
Putin has managed to "spin" Trump in the short term but risks a significant fall out at Budapest as the Kremlin refuses to concede to Trump's demand for a halt…
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Why Trump's 'shouting match' with Zelensky still leaves Putin 'paranoid' | Michael Binyon
Putin is still "paranoid" about his meeting with Trump as he has "nothing to offer" the US president despite wanting control over Ukraine, and other former…
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Trump will meet Putin in Hungary as US and Ukraine threaten to cripple Russian economy
Donald Trump has announced that he will meet President Putin in Hungary for talks on the war in Ukraine. Michael Bociurkiw discusses what the meeting could…
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'It's getting interesting' Ukraine retakes ground after Putin's failure at Dobropillia
As Russia struggles to find ways to move armour and equipment forward Ukraine begins retaking settlements in the wake of Russia's failure to seize Pokrovsk…
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Putin could be forced to end invasion by 'collapse' of oil industry with US supported strikes
With US support Ukraine could force Russia to end the war by threatening to completely collapse the Russian economy through further energy strikes, says…
- Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin is experiencing a ‘strategic catastrophe’ | John Foreman
“Three years in, its entire year’s advance has been tiny.” Russia is experiencing a “strategic catastrophe” as its military campaign “winds down” and resets…
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Putin’s troops walk into an ambush the Donbas | Maxim Tucker
“The Russians are still encircled…there’s not much hope that the Russians can break those guys out.” The Ukrainian troops “open fire” on advancing Russians as…
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'This scares Russia to death' US support for long range strikes leaves Putin in 'high risk' position
"A war of occupation from Russia is looking as impossible as it was looking by April 2022." Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure appear to have the…