"The way to manage the risks is to be prepared to face up to them. That means being prepared for the worst case, which is war with Russia.". Nato must be ready with a "very powerful deterrent" to control Putin, former Nato deputy supreme commander Sir Ric...

"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...

"We’re seeing men being conscripted who have no previous military experience, which is a direct contradiction of what Vladimir Putin has said." Men without military training or experience are being conscripted from Russia to fight in Ukraine, journalist R...

"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...

Vladimir Putin is engaging in 'nuclear blackmail.' The Russian President's nuclear threats do not come from a position of strength, says Catherine Philp.

"Don't dismiss what Putin is saying as familiar fare"Vladimir Putin is 'throwing red meat' at his opposition in Russia with his escalation, says former UK ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton.

"I do not think that the regime will survive. The Russians are going to suffer a lot. And at the end, he will not survive this."After Putin announces a mobilization, Russia expert Samantha de Badern says Putin’s regime ‘will not survive’ on #TimesRadio.

"Putin will be able to use nuclear weapons against you, against Great Britain." The British are 'misinformed' when it comes to the Russian war on Ukraine, says Sergei Markov, former spokesperson to Vladimir Putin.

"Putin's point of view is once the referendums have taken place...those territories will be part of Russia. So any Ukrainian attack on them supported by the West, is an attack on Russia itself." Putin has announced a partial mobilisation, conscription of...

"The UK and China must point out to President Putin that he cannot go down the nuclear road"World powers must put pressure on Russia not to use nuclear weapons as the West mobilises its war industry, Sir Richard Barrons tells #TimesRadio.

"There will be a number of referenda and they [Russia] have introduced concepts of mobilisation and martial law." Putin has put measures in place to manage Ukraine’s counter offence, former senior British Military advisor Major General Chip Chapman explai...

"The statement today saying that ‘Putin wants to end this war very quickly and may be willing to do so.’ I think we should be suspicious of that." President Erdogan says that Putin ‘wants to end the war quickly.’ How might Putin achieve this? Lord George...

"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.

"This is why we are on this desperate counter offence and using all our forces, because this is our main turning point in this war." Ukrainian troops are ‘using everything possible and impossible’ to regain territory before winter, Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik...