Why Putin's strategy has failed on the ground



As the Kremlin rushes to counter media and conscripts’ disquiet over Kursk losses, Putin’s push on Pokrovsk continues to drive up Russian troop and equipment losses. This week’s Frontline experts give their analysis on the latest out of Ukraine and Russia.

Michael Clarke, Defence Analyst
The Times’ Catherine Philp
Philip Ingram, Military Intelligence Expert
Ian Garner, Professor at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw
Brig. Gen. Peter Zwack (Ret.), Former US defence attache to Russia

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46 thoughts on “Why Putin's strategy has failed on the ground”

  1. I’m not sure this guy believes what he’s saying or not. Is he really sure that the Ukrainian telegram channels he sources his info from are not reporting Russians as suffering the huge losses and lack of equipment which the Ukrainians are actually suffering?
    Without verified info the British government will form dangerously wrong policies in relation to Russia.

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  2. And if the Ukrainians have a donkey sh*tting gold they even might be able to pay back what they own to the US! And if the donkey has dyria, they might even be able to pay back GB. But – they don't have!
    Maybe you do not realize – Russia is winning, and you (= Western 'democratic' 'elites') are loosing!

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  3. Once the Russians take Pokrovsk it will have no strategic value. What this "expert" who by no mean is bias just like the Western Media is that Ukranians choose to fight in the cities … when this war is finished there will be no more Ukraine as a functional state.

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  4. The advance is not accelerating … the Ukraine frontline is collapsing … why are these so called experts so "dumb". After the Russian break through these fortification lines built up since 2014 it will be a quick push to the Dniepre.

    Times Radio should invite Colonel Douglas Macgregor to school them on what is going on.

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  5. Times radio is the curious propaganda voice of the Russian hating UK. The British Empire has been involved in wars with Russia for centuries. The Brits goal of ruling the entire world and turning every nation into a colony has run into a wall with Russia.

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  6. Because as usual, it counted upon their using bluff and bluster to prevent us from realizing that they don't have their much boasted air defense systems, by deterring us from finding out by entering their territory in battle.

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  7. What the Russians are doing is to concentrate artillery (5 to 1 ratio) and 1.5 ton FABs to trenches to shock the Ukrainian troops out of their wits. They have been there for two years or more, or else they are new recruits. There is absolutely no need for the Russian army to lose 100 vehicles and 1000 men per day here. This UK general really weird, appearing everywhere. Mostly what he says doesn't count up right.

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  8. That was very entertaining, it was like listening to secondary school children debating the Ukraine war without any knowledge of war or of Ukrainian sovereignty and knowing nothing of Russian strategies.
    All the while claiming theory and ideology as fact 🤣

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  9. Anyone that thinks Ukraine is winning / going to win the war with Russia are delusional and just believe the western media reports being FACT. There is only one side in the war that keeps crossing their own red lines, and it isn't Russia. Why do these red lines keep getting crossed? Because they are getting annihilated. I really feel for the Ukranian people because a peace deal was agreed 2 months after the invasion and the US and UK told Zelensky to tear it up and now it is estimated over 500k Ukranians have been killed and wounded.

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  10. I said it since day one and I keep saying it despite massive criticism: both Russia and the west are in this staged "conflict" together. And here's another thing: other than isolated explosions here and there and the ussual little drone strikes, has anyone seen actual footage or regular basis, such that it validates claims of hundreds of thousands of losses so far?

    For example: Ukraine has no airbase. Where are the 400 flights of Russian bombardments a day? All I see is rockets landing on deserted factories and buildings to claim they hit something important.

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  11. Zelenskyy started this war because he had a fantasy of westernising the Ukraine . Really he should have just emigrated to America and not caused the destruction of thousands of Ukrainians !

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  12. God Bless President Putin and Mother Russia — would I and many thousands of Brits shed a tear if Westmonster received a direct hit? This Septic Tank Proxy War is a total disgrace, it is shameful that Britain is being drained dry just for these evil b'stards to profit and cheer from a distance. As for Times Radio and it’s total propaganda …

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  13. wise up! whoever NATO's military strategist's are seem almost incompetent, what is this? Everybody knows ukraine cannot overcome the russians. but the west, nato, us, uk, eu have pushed and coerced them into this war ( for ten years for those who dont read, azov neo nazis have been shelling the border regions for a decade, killing thousands of civilians. Those poor Ukrainians half a million dead, all for the interests of the western powers.

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