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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has failed so far, with enormous losses to Russia in terms of combat personnel, military equipment and the reputations for quality/reliability/effectiveness of Russian weapons and forces Even the Ukrainians

They fought without the new weapons and things that we are now sending in to ukraine, and theyve held out for a long time, and tactically, what that means is they have tied up russian forces, battalion task groups around mariupol that were not able to go to the rest of the fight. sadly now as mariupol falls, those forces will be able to join the rest of the fight in the region. >> now, we have ambassador volker with us. i want to ask you about the other moves parts we have today. the leaders of ...

That will result in getting this sorted out before the june nato summit. >> general, coming back to whats happening on the battlefield. the pentagon says the russians are attacking in smaller units. and the uk says russia is purging some of the senior commanders. whats the significance of this? >> well, the smaller units i think is just a function of how many personnel the russians have lost in the war. former battalion task groups that were at a level much higher when they entered the battle, h...

You can knock out those bridges, you can trap a lot of battalion task groups that have gotten across the river, and the ukr ukrainians are probably taking them out now. if you look at the terrain, the meandering nature of the river, and how its very very difficult to get through. i mean, you cross one part of the river and you might have to cross another part of the river. this is very difficult terrain. crossing this river has been very very important. the russians have been spending about seve...

Miles from kramatorsk and the reason that they are being successful is once again, logistics. they have secure supply lines here from russia. they have friendly troops. they already occupied that area. the supply lines are not subject to interdiction. what they are able to do is bring up massive amounts of artillery. the artillery that they have up there, probably about eight to ten battalion task groups up there are firing massive amounts of artillery, and just trying to blow the smithereens ou...

Donbas there. weve been hearing, including from u.s. officials watching this, that the russians may be improving how theyre operating there, moving along parallel lines in this area from izyum here, maybe learning some lessons, spider. what are you seeing in donbas? >> yeah, what the russians are clearly confronted with, and they have been over the course of the last month, is theyve gotten some incredible beatings in the vicinity of kyiv. they now realize that this is where their initiative nee...

How did the five largest intel agencies in the world misjudge the outcome of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine? Intel agencies in Russia (FSB), America (CIA), Germany (BDN), France (DRM) and to a lesser extent Britain (MI6) concluded that Ukraine coul

The 2022 war in Ukraine revealed several unexpected but not unknown problems with the Russian military Those who had followed failed efforts to reform the Russian army since the 1990s and the similar efforts by Ukrainian forces since 2014 were aware tha

Russia invaded in 2014 and there still are separatists -- that might be why theyre so blaise. >> what do you make of that statement in. >> its really complicated. i did hear one thing from the ukrainian minister of defense estimating that the numbers had to be higher, but i think they are those numbers that courtney mentioned at the outset where those 30 battalion task groups are coming to the border soon so they may change what theyre saying. but they dont want to alarm their people. i think th...

President Vladimir Putin finds himself facing major economic, political, diplomatic crises he never expected at the beginning of the year Explanations for the decision to invade Ukraine are still absent There is general agreement that it was the decisi