Are We Really Expecting That in Ukraine?

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The russian army is very much an artillery and fire power based force. They don't really havete of of training, professionalism exercise opportunities to take what we might call a manoeuvrist approach to warfare. What we've seen instead is its soof these, we're almost unsupported in many s columns am going forward on the roads, trying to rapidly encircle the cities. Am really clearly not expecting a fight, and also clearly with very little actual time to plan. It looks like the Russian military was given very, very short notice of actually moving two combat operations. And so there's been very little coordination. That is starting to change.

Freddie Sayers meets Justin Bronk.

It has been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and one of many unanswered questions is why Russia has yet to launch the vast majority of its combat aircraft, despite having an advantage over the comparatively small Ukrainian air force. Could Putin be holding back the full might of his army for tactical or political reasons? Or is this failure to launch a symptom of poor planning by the Kremlin?

To seek out some technical expertise on this topic, Freddie Sayers spoke to Justin Bronk, Research Fellow for Military Airpower at the Royal United Services Institute.

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