Day 391.
Today, we bring you updates from across Ukraine, dispel Russian misinformation on British tank rounds & interview Kyiv Independent Reporter Francis Farrell on his time reporting from the front lines across Ukraine.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Commanding Officer in the British Army’s Tank Regiment).
Francis Farrell (Kyiv Independent Reporter). @francisjfarrell on Twitter.
With thanks to Matthew Day. @MatthewWarsaw on Twitter.
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So, Putler and his amateur army is frightened of the British tank munitions . . . Eff off home then !
Croatia?
We have given proportionally to our capacities more than many richer and safer countries.
We must stay armed, because Serbs both in Serbia and Bosnia haven't given up their lunacy from 1990es.
Simplistic to say but if it wasn't for Putin and Xi we may still have a chance to save our planet and continue humanity
‘Dom’ would be more credible if he didn’t plea against propaganda whilst repeating verbatim MoD press releases. Do journalism please.
Not 18 Himars but 500, but most on Polish track
Imagine Putin Russia get completely defeated, not hard to do, NATO will be gone as well. If there is no Feindbild there is no need for NATO. NATO gone does not mean that the will for war disappeares. Politician all over in the world dream of becoming super power. Have always and probably will always. Than we have a country in East Europe, that has geared up like Hitler has 85 years ago. Add to this the evermore hostile language, that Poland since years now is directing to Germany. Add to this that the weapons somewhen have to be paid. Add to this that by all progress Polands industry and commerce is limited, to be nice.
I, as a German, do not see what is happening in the east without stomach pain. And the bear farther east is not even dead.
We still have to watch China closely because they want their cake and eat it too.The threat of trade barriers from Western Democracies economies will make Xi think long and hard.
Xi wants trade deals done in China`s currency ti make it the standard of the world.
If that country and economy isn`t, free (it`s not)the currency can`t be trusted.This is a perfect fit for Russian Rubles to get around sanctions.The funny thing is that China is gonna take Russia to the cleaners and Putin will have to bend over for Xi.
I think that an autocratic has to be treated very warily and we should really wean ourselves from these types of regimes even though a few Western banks and investers who are getting rich by flooding the market with cheap consumer crap that costs us middle class jobs because they all got shipped to China.
If China was a democracy their could be free and "fair" trade like how western countries treat each other.China has basicly slave wages for most of their people while the Chinese Communist party members get rich along with a few western banks and rich investors.
Frances’s report was so sad, the poor guys fighting for their existence will suffer massive CPTSD when they have won. It is also terrible that Russians will experience the same when they lose but with a realisation that they had been conned.
My heart goes out to their nation.
So Generals and other military experts from Ukraine + Western countries are not as smart as this last reporter and his anecdotal facts?It`s true that a lot depends on how Ukrainians use what they have wisely in the coming year.But this reporter seems to be pessimistic to a degree that he sounds more like a Russian blogger.He definitely has no inside information of any planned counter offensive and I would ask him if the Russians are really getting better on how they attack or defend for that matter. I think he thinks they are but where is the evidence?It is true that Russia has Ukraine out gunned at the present time but how does this "reporter" know about the current state of the Russian army? It is true that Ukrainian troops at the front are having a hard time of it in Bakhmut and I think it is a mistake by Ukraine they haven`t repositioned out of the city but I would trust Ukraine`s intelligence services more than this guy`s intelligence.
Screw the Russians, they shell everything without any strategy. Yes they are dumb.
I worry that the Russians have something else up their sleeve. Something like a new tank or new artillery or something.
Thousands of service men came back from the first gulf war , very ill . Our Tank regiment boys were the first to get symptoms .
But as usual the Government cover it up .
Back to over an hour of podcast — nice. I am not a Trump fan but he was correct when he accused NATO of underspending.
This network spits out false allegations and theoretical theater like someone attempting to piss out chit.
This war will be long. Don't listen anything comes up from media, especially from mainstream. Exaggerate in many things. Spread panic and fear.
Should be punishable by law to distort facts like western media does
Putin is in a freezer below the Kremlin.
Russia is one step closer to being a Chinese vassal state. China doesn’t seem so keen on that idea.
China ..Will betray Russia….China wants to be the only super power in that region!! ….when Russia army is depleted….the will go in for the kill …
How does one sap a monologue? LEARN ENGLISH.
There is hundrede of documented cases of people who had zero illnesses, but after the 1991 Iraq war and the “war on terror” war crimes the west should take responsibility for, before they go around condemning others. The whole world outside the west doesn’t care about the western MSM narrative where anything Russia or China does is illegal and unacceptable, but when we’ve done it, we were trying to create a better world. And depleted Uranium shells, have certainly caused many cases of cancer and such in Iraq and Afghanistan. Following NATOs “special military operations”