"It's extremely expensive, extremely painful but what Putin wants instead is for us to say, okay, you can have Ukraine, we're going to end our sanctions." Sanctions will have an effect on Putin eventually but only if we are consistent, says Bill Browder.

"No swift breakthrough for the Ukrainians, but they are still going forward." Ukrainian troops are ‘going forward’ and making ‘very small gains’ in the battlefield after taking a town in north-eastern Kherson, Times correspondent Richard Spencer tells #Ti...

The surprise [counterattack] has worked in Ukraine's favour to a large extent."Ukrainian troops are successfully ‘pushing out’ Russian forces from Kharkiv and are ‘hampering the Russians’ with their tactics, Times correspondent Askold Krushelnycky tells...

"We've seen quite significant pressure on the Russian economy." After Putin says the economic sanctions put in place by the West are 'not impacting' Russia, #TimesRadio asks Professor Samuel Greene, director of the Russian Institute at King's College Lond...

Where we are in phase three is approaching the winter, the ground gets much harder, and it’s much harder to fight." The Ukraine Russia conflict has reached ‘phase three’ as winter approaches, foreign analyst and author Tim Marshall tells #TimesRadio.

"If Zaporizhzhia does leak, then from a NATO perspective, it could be an Article 5 Act of War if NATO chose," says Major General Chip Chapman. If Article 5 were invoked, every NATO ally would be considered the victims of the attack and would respond accor...

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There have been spectacular battles, and some of the Russian detachments have retreated." Russian troops are ‘retreating’ from Kherson as Ukraine fights to take back the region, Times journalist Askold Krushelnycky tells #TimesRadio.

"Putin has weaponized and exploited Russian History." The Russia/Ukraine conflict can be traced back a thousand years, says Rodric Braithwaite, former British Ambassador to Moscow, who read out his diary from his time in Moscow during the collapse of the...

"If we don't wake up to that threat that Russia has a genocidal agenda for the future, then we've got a real problem." Putin is relying on the West losing the will to support Ukraine in the longer term, says Major General Chip Chapman.

"She's got to work really hard, particularly with European colleagues, to make sure that there isn't a chink in the armour that Putin could exploit." Maintaining alliances must be a top priority of the next PM in order to stop Putin, says former British A...

Although there is enthusiasm and good morale amongst soldiers to continue to push back against the Russians, this isn't going to be over quickly." As the battle for Kherson continues, the war will not be over ‘quickly’, Times journalist Richard Spencer wa...

"Putin will not be replaced by a nice man. Nobody who is around Putin is likely to be that different." Putin’s successor is ‘very likely’ to carry on the conflict, which is expected to continue for ’40, 50, 60 years’, Michael Clarke tells #TimesRadio.

"In Russia over the last six months we see a very grave pattern of individuals who are employed in the oil and gas business dying violently." Russian oligarchs from are dying in suspicious circumstances says Kremlin critic Bill Browder.

If the war in Ukraine has taught us anything, it's that Britain still needs a strong military. That's certainly what the UK's generals will tell you. But how much would you spend on defence?