Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Today on Frontline, Britain's first National Security Advisor Lord Peter Ricketts tells Philip Ingram why passing the tragic milestone of one million Russian casualties in the war in Ukraine will not be enough stop Vladimir Putin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Russia is testing us all the time.” The UK is already in an “intense conflict with both kinetic and non-kinetic elements,” as Putin is likely to "test Article 5 quite soon", says The Times’s Edward Lucas.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The Kremlin needs to allocate significant manpower and resources to protect its borders because its borders are not defended.” New Ukrainian offensives, such as Operation Spider's web, expose “major strategic weaknesses” in Russia, as the Kremlin sweeps the fallout “under the rug”, says Kateryna Stepanenko, Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War. Hosted on Acast. See acast....

"It could be a very nasty accident on the Kola Peninsula, for instance, in the in the corridor between, between the Baltics and Poland. It's just something very odd could happen." Trump's lack of action on sanctions and deterring Russia could push Putin into an attack on Europe in NATO cannot provide a realistic defence plan warns Robert Fox on Frontline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

President Trump's muted response to Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia suggests he's not willing to step in and protect Putin from US sanctions, says Kurt Volker, former US special envoy to Ukraine on Times Radio's Frontline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Putin was photographed, in a Tupolev Tu 160, the supersonic bomber, and closely aligned himself with it. The fact that the Ukrainians are now picking them off almost at will picks away at that entire Russian sense of self and of Putin at the top of this." Putin's position has been damaged with the destruction of the bombers that represented his power, says retired Air Marshal Ed Stringer. Hosted...

“They’re certainly not going to be able to put as many aircrafts into the air… it will have an impact.” Ukraine proves it has “opportunities and abilities to strike Russia where it hurts” with their audacious airfield drone attacks, says The Times’s Maxim Tucker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"It will be a very, very, very big impact. Considering Russia's military presence in Crimea and their capacity of delivering their supplies, to other spans of the frontline." A renewed campaign to destroy the Kerch Bridge would be devastating to Putin and very damaging to the Russian invasion, Operator Starsky tells Philip Ingram on Frontline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Days of bombing and drone attacks on crucial Russian strategic targets including the Kerch Bridge and Russian nuclear bomber bases show Putin "cannot win" against Ukrainian asymmetric warfare, says Malcolm Nance, Former US Naval intelligence officer speaking to Philip Ingram on Times Radio's Frontline.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.