Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Russia's worries over a recession show Putin's miscalculation over support for Ukraine has left Russia vulnerable to retaliation from Kyiv's allies says James Rogers co-founder and Director of Research at the Council on Geostrategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Putin is showing his allies, what little there are around the world, that Russian cannot be relied upon.”Russia is not coming to Iran’s defence, despite the regime's drone supplies to the Kremlin, says senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center Michael Bociurkiw. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I think there is deep paranoia within the Russian intelligence establishment about China’s activities.”Xi may be on the verge of betraying Putin, as a leaked FSB document claims China is an “active threat” to Russia, according to Ian Williams.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The conversations amongst MPs are kind of mentioning the nuclear option more than before.”It’s “inevitable” that Ukraine will start building its own nuclear weapons through the Soviet nuclear power stations in the Western part of Ukraine, says Professor Vlad Mykhnenko. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"There is no way that the Russian spin machine and propaganda machine can spin this into anything but a flipping disaster." Ukrainian attacks Russian military infrastructure is a "psychological blow" to Putin's "propaganda machine", says former British army colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“They may actually set off a chain reaction in Russia where everyone says, ‘Well, this guy is just a weakling.’ And if they can incite the Russian people to get to him before Putin does something really awful, that’s their best defence.”The best thing for Ukraine to do is to “continue to humiliate” Putin before he strikes back, says Sir William Browder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on Frontline, Britain's first National Security Advisor Lord Peter Ricketts tells Philip Ingram why passing the tragic milestone of one million Russian casualties in the war in Ukraine will not be enough stop Vladimir Putin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Russia is testing us all the time.”The UK is already in an “intense conflict with both kinetic and non-kinetic elements,” as Putin is likely to "test Article 5 quite soon", says The Times’s Edward Lucas.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The Kremlin needs to allocate significant manpower and resources to protect its borders because its borders are not defended.”New Ukrainian offensives, such as Operation Spider's web, expose “major strategic weaknesses” in Russia, as the Kremlin sweeps the fallout “under the rug”, says Kateryna Stepanenko, Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"It could be a very nasty accident on the Kola Peninsula, for instance, in the in the corridor between, between the Baltics and Poland. It's just something very odd could happen." Trump's lack of action on sanctions and deterring Russia could push Putin into an attack on Europe in NATO cannot provide a realistic defence plan warns Robert Fox on Frontline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.