Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

You have been listening to Frontline, with Kate Gerbeau, Philip Ingram, Louis Sykes and Laura Martinez-Williams, produced by Times Radio.

You have been listening to Frontline, with Kate Gerbeau, Philip Ingram, Louis Sykes and Laura Martinez-Williams, produced by Times Radio.

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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.