"There are a lot of issues. How can they maintain the momentum? How’s it all going in terms of sustaining this?" As Ukraine reaches 30 to 40 km from the Russian border, military advisors wonder how Ukraine will be able to continue. Former British Army of...

"In Ukraine, we have a joke: On the 200th day of the war, Ukrainians finally taught Russia how to take cities in three days." A third of Ukrainian territories have been de-occupied, says Vlodomyr Yermolenko

Russian media "doesn't have anything they can spin to make this sound anything other than bad." Even on Russian state TV, there is something "close to panic," Justin Bronk tells Anna Cunningham.

"There’s been pressure from political quarters which have publicly called on President Putin to resign." Saint Petersburg City Council and Russian politicians are calling for President Putin to resign. This is the first time ‘pushback’ against Putin has a...

Ukraine has been quite successful over the past few days. It's another case of catastrophic failure on Russia's part." Russia and the West have massively underestimated Ukraine says former National Security Adviser John Bolton

“If you knock out their logistics so they don’t have any ammunition or fuel, make them fear for their lives, the whole thing starts to fall apart.” ‘All wars are psychological’ which leads to armies ‘falling apart’, Dr. Mike Martin, a British Army officer...

"Putin cannot afford to lose this otherwise the danger is he will lose power. And there are people around him who are harder on the aggressive end of the spectrum than he is." If Putin loses the Russia Ukraine war, replacements are likely to be more ‘aggr...

"They [Russia] are agitating for a full military mobilisation, which frankly won’t do them any good."The Russian army is ‘in a big mess militarily’ as Ukraine continues their counteroffensives, former military officer Frank Ledwidge tells #TimesRadio.

"Putin can no longer count on the military. A military coup attempt can’t be ruled out if Putin gives order to deliver a nuclear strike." Russian troops are ‘paralysed’, ‘shocked’, and lack loyalty to Putin, suggesting a coup ‘can’t be ruled out’, Putin’s...

"Civilians will feel the shelling, especially during the winter."In response to territorial gains by the Ukrainian army, Russia has attacked power stations in Kharkiv, leading to blackouts across the region, says Solomiia Bobrovska.

"We were not prepared for the collapse of the Soviet Union. We need to be prepared for the collapse of Russia." Ukraine's counter offensive could result in the Russian Federation collapsing, say General Ben Hodges. ---

"Ukraine regained around 1800 square kilometres in the last ten days." Ukraine's counter-offensive around Kherson is making ground, says former Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

"Unless every source is wrong, the initiative is now incredibly with the Ukrainian forces." Russian troops have been ordered to abandon the ‘key town’ of Izyum, Evening Standard’s defence editor Robert Fox tells #TimesRadio

"The Russian troops don’t have good morale. They were unprepared and certainly unprepared for the resistance they face." Low morale of Russian troops is helping Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Times correspondent @RichardJSpencer tells #TimesRadio.

"This war has never really been right for Russia. They’ve never had enough troops, they’ve been poorly equipped." Russian troops are neither skilled nor equipped enough to win the war against Ukraine, former British Army officer Dr. Mike Martin tells #Tim...