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Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
Putin’s loosing 50,000 troops a month: Ben Hodges, Maxim Tucker & Yuriy Sak analyse 4 years of war
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“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 commander of the US army in Europe General Ben Hodges, The Times’s Maxim Tucker and former advisor to the Ukrainian ministry of defence Yuriy Sak join Philip Ingram to reflect on the last four years of the Ukraine war.
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