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Putin’s self-deception is driving Russia towards operational disaster | Keir Giles
28:40|“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
24:51|“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.Witkoff and Kushner’s ‘doomed diplomacy’ plays into Putin’s trap | Scott Lucas
34:03|“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.‘Knuckleheads’ Witkoff and Kushner’s Kyiv visit was ‘embarrassing’ | Lt Gen Ben Hodges
31:13|“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.'Putin is completely mad' | Anna Zafesova
36:05|“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.Putin suffers major operational blows in Fortress Belt and Kinburn Spit | Maj. Gen. Chip Chapman
31:47|“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.Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine | Mikhail Khodorkovsky
32:24|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.