"Putin still thinks he can win with his military. As long as the West provides at least the amount of aid to Ukraine provided today, Moscow will fail." The war in Ukraine will end when Putin realizes he cannot win, says former US Ambassador to Ukraine Joh...

"Putin still thinks he can win with his military. As long as the West provides at least the amount of aid to Ukraine provided today, Moscow will fail." The war in Ukraine will end when Putin realises he cannot win, says former US Ambassador to Ukraine Joh...

"I know people who are fighting. They’re not naïve, they know what they’re doing." Volunteer troops in Ukraine are ‘frustrated’ about the conflict and believe this is the ‘best thing they can do’ to help Ukraine beat Russia, Major General Rupert Jones tel...

You can actually see from from what's been released from the Russian side that they have made progress." Ukraine has begun testing Russian defences and morale around Kherson and are seeing some success, says Times correspondent Richard Spencer.

"If the Ukrainians take that part of Kherson, it would be a major win and could be the start of the push to push Russians back." If Ukraine wins back Kherson, this could be the start of a Ukraine winning the war against Russia, Major John Spencer tells #T...

“They will try and strangle the city until the Russian defenders are much weaker.” Ukrainian forces are trying to ‘weaken’ Russian troops before launching a counterattack on Kherson, General Sir Richard Barrons tells #TimesRadio

here’s a large psychological element to what the Ukrainians are doing. The crackdown has had an impact, the Kremlin’s quite aware of that." Ukrainian forces are trying to ‘break the morale’ of Russians, Thomas Graham tells #TimesRadio.

"What the Ukrainians are attempting is to force the Russian forces to withdraw rather than engage in head to head combat." Ukraine counter offensive in Kherson is significant amid reports Russian troops are fleeing Kherson, risk analyst Alex Kokcharov tel...

“They started a massive attack and have taken some of the territory back. There’s three lines of defences" around Kherson, "but Ukrainians say they have breached that first line of defence.”

"The President is deeply engaged in everything starting from military steps and finishing with diplomatic negotiations." President Zelensky has played an active role in war tactics and decision-making that has bought Russia's offensive to a halt, Zelensky...

It’s expected Russian behaviour. Their strategy is always to threaten our allies, to force them to make pressure on Ukrainian leadership."Ukrainain MP Andrii Osadchuk tells #TimesRadio Russia plans on using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant for ‘nuclea...

"I do think the Russians can be kittled and crushed to the west of Kherson."Major General Chip Chapman provides his analysis on the Russian war on Ukraine on #TimesRadio

The Russians are exhausted. Their logistics system is exhausted. There's nothing they can do except continue launching artillery against civilian targets. Even that has dropped off." Retired General Ben Hodges says a window has opened for Ukraine to repel...

"Putin will play his last card. He will try to freeze us here in the UK and across Europe." Scott Lucas says the West must prepare for this "long phase in the war" for which Ukrainians are paying the price.

The story, quite frankly, if they're not already selling off the film rights, they should." Russians are "rushing a story out quickly" about Dugina's murder to "have a justification for doing something gratuitously unpleasant" on Wednesday, says RUSI fell...