"Things are falling apart very badly for the Russians. But we should not get too optimistic." Russia still has “a lot” of firepower and Ukraine should not get "carried away", former army officer Sir Simon Mayall tells #TimesRadio.

"Russia is going to lose this war, and then Russia will be very angry. We need to be ready to deal with this difficult Russia, whether it's under Putin or someone like Putin." Should Rishi Sunak increase spending in defence to prepare for an 'angry' Russi...

Russia's strategy of kamikazi drone bombing civilian targets is historically flawed Former Standing Joint Force Commander Rupert Jones tells #timesradio .---...

Abbas Gallyamov, a former speechwriter for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

What’s gone on in Ukraine, as far as most Russians are concerned, has been somebody else’s problem. But now mass mobilisation is everybody’s problem." Putin’s mobilisation is ‘backfiring’ on him and will see ‘more Russians getting killed’, Lord Richard Da...

Russian Ukraine News | Russia Claims Victory In Referendum | Russia Ukraine War | English News LIVE Spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, holds her weekly news briefing via video link.

Protestors opposing mobilization clashed with police in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, underscoring the level of discontent with President Vladimir Putin's decision to send hundreds of thousands more men to fight in Ukraine.

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Live stream discussing Putin's address to the Russian nation, dedicated to the situation in Ukraine and referendums of Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to join Russia and the announcement of a partial mo...

"If his professional army didn't fare well, there is little hope those inexperienced draftees will change something."Putin knows his partial mobilization won't make a difference on the battlefield, but he wants us to know he's serious about escalation, sa...

"These people are older, untrained and unfit. It will take months. 300,000 is an aspirational thought." Russian troops recruited to fight Ukraine are ‘all veterans’ who ‘don’t want to be part of this’, former brigadier general Peter Zwack tells #TimesRadi...

"The war has gone as bad as possible for Putin. He now finds himself having to explain himself to his hardliners, to his army, to his people – all of them are unhappy." Putin is ‘desperate, not stupid’, former head of the foreign office Lord McDonald tell...

"Putin needs to demonstrate that he is not that weak as he looks now." Putin ‘wants the image of an anti-western bloc leader’, but will need to show that he is not weak, former Russian parliament adviser Nikolai Petrov tells #TimesRadio.

"What Putin has done is on a different scale... it was appropriate to tell him to stay away." Sir Kim Darroch talks to Ayesha Hazarika about who will be at the Queen's funeral tomorrow and who hasn't been invited.