Putin will not take Kharkiv, but not for the reasons you think | Robert Fox
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- “What happened at Mariupol, at the very beginning of the war... I don't think they want to do that, with Kharkiv, because it will consume far too much manpower.”
Putin will not take Kharkiv as there are “five different probes” going on, says Robert Fox, defence editor for the Evening Standard.
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Ukraine wouldn't be able to build defenses to close to the border. They would constantly be targeted.
I still can't believe rushns have less land now than they did in 2022. That aint winning, that's for sure. That's slow motion losing
Yeah better to trouser the cash and buy some more villas in the Costa del Sol 😏
Indeed, rusnia's narrative
Russia managed it
@@s0ycapitan Care to explain that further?
We don't really help Ukraine and then we criticize them for not doing enough ... total BS
Tiny Ukraine didn't even have an army 3 years ago, and they're slowly winning. Either Ukrainians are total badazzes, or rushn army is the joke of the entire planet lol
USA never was interested in Ukraine. They wanted to win the economic war against Russia. This went wrong. Now Ukraine is useless for USA. The ukr war was used as an excuse to start the economic war.
Join Ukrainian army then.
That's BS. Western aid to Ukraine has more than doubled the Russian military budget.
I don't think Fox made a great deal of sense. Perhaps his age is catching up, but it was mostly a confused rant.
Robert fox on this channel saying last year that the Ukraine offensive spelled game over for Russia 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Could he suspect how dumb the Republican house was? I think he assumed a certain level of western support.
They are fighting with one arm tied behind their back
And still Ukraine has taken back 50% of the land rushns held 2 years ago.
Those Ukrainians can _FIGHT!_
LOGICAL advice from the US that Ukraine should never attack Russia mainland ------ you never win a war with borrowed weapons while fighting a formidable side like Russia that is just feigning weakness
And still Ukrainians are winning! Those Ukranians can FIGHT!
how?
@@Withnail1969 Really? Let's start with not allowed to use NATO weapons on Russian territory. Not allowed to go after Russian civilian infrastructure. etc.
Completely disagree. (1) One cannot be expected to place defensive lines right on the border in the middle of a hot war; Russia’s Surovikin lines were done several KMs behind the front line; (2) Russia lost an *extra* 500 personnel per day trying to cross the border at Kharkiv, which seems like a poor use of the meat tactic if this were a feint; (3) Russia’s use of glide bombs show they *don’t* have any control of the air; these are fired over 50KM behind the front to avoid being shot down.
Exactly!!
The Ukrainian defenses near the Russian border are not the main defenses. Russia could shell that region with relative impunity. The main defenses are further back.
Russia has shown it can breach any Ukrainian defences it wants to.
@@s0ycapitan With huge losses in meat wave attacks.
@@s0ycapitanRussia has shown it can pay for a Putins Yachts
@@michaelweston1042 Nope, they use stand off weapons for some time (days/weeks) to degrade the positions.
And they interdict reinforcement routes.
So by the time the final assult goes in the Ukrainians are already beaten.
@@michaelweston1042 Not true !
Not much if anything new here. "Thing's are very, very dynamic." What an insight on war! Who knew!?!
the russian established air superiority?!? they're launching the glide bombs from WAY beyond the front lines, and the cruise and other missiles from hundreds of miles inside russia. has this dude forgot what happened a month or two ago when russian jets dared to get close to the frontline on the eastern front? more than a dozen shot down in a couple days... come on...
source: trust me bro xD
@@pmakins95 the source for where they launch glide bombs and cruise missiles from is the person they're interviewing, robert fox! did you even watch the video? source for the number of planes shot down on the eastern front back in february, you can find articles from Forbes, for example. feel free to educate yourself, if you ever feel the urge to 😂
he does not have to, it will fall anyway
Can't do this without his notes and still can't pronounce Vovchansk, leave the analysis to the experts pal
This guy is the definition of couch warrior. He completely ignores the West’s failure to deliver aid in a timely manner and the restrictions on its ability to strike into Russia
Absolutely. He one of these people who is sure Russia will win because the ukrainiens can't seem to make advances without proper and sufficient weapons. The fact that the ukrainiens have won back enormous portions of their land and pushed the russian navy away just doesn't count for people like this specialist
No. He mentioned the strike limitations.
The fact is that Ikraine could never have won a war. It was supposed that sanctions would defeat Putin. Turns out this was totally absurd. In fact Russia has turned away from Europe and toward the East, damaging Europe and creating a new world order.
@@angela2726Kiev hasn't pushed Russian allied forces anywhere the Uk & US have with our satellite data & targeting & our boat drones.
Without nato Ukraine would have had to concede to east Ukrainians demand for autonomy from the foreign investors funded Regime.
None of Zelensky's achievements on the territories would be possible without Nato, zero.. nadda
This right here is just showing you how people truly are when Hard Times Like These are happening it's like as if people doesn't want Ukraine to defend themselves they don't want to be part of Russia people do not get that though they just want them to sign a peace treaty and they're saying that they do not want to War World 3 well then that's too bad it seems like as if we going to have to deal with the fact that it's unavoidable
The Ukrainian 1st line of defense was 10km inside the border for good reason. Otherwise it would have been under constant surveillance and bombardment. Ukrainian border troops withdrew in good order to the defensive line, inflicting heavy losses on the invaders. By this time the axes of attack could be seen and reserves were brought forward where needed to defend the line. Now Ukraine is defending from heavily fortified positions and Russia is attacking across 10km of mostly open terrain.
Of course there is much consternation in Ukraine that Russia was able to advance into Ukraine, but you can’t call yourself an expert by simply repeating the very understandable anxiety being expressed by Ukrainians at this time.
Unless it was a suicide mission or, "D-Day," type invasion, I can't imagine a US Commanding General losing 1,000 men KIA/WIA in one day and still being in command. Heads would roll! Yet the Russians have these kind of losses every day for two years! Lately, it seems more common to hear 1200-1400 per day. The carnage.
1740 is the record Vlad is trying to break.
Russians have these kind of losses every day according to western media, looking at the war it does not seem they are the best place for the truth
something not adding up ...... The Russians are advancing ? ..... They're losing 1,000 soldiers a day....... against a Ukrainian Army supposedly currently short on munitions....
Could you imagine the American or British or Australian or Canadian people putting up with losses of 1500 soldiers per day, day after day? The public outcry would be horrendous! Our population just doesn’t put up with that kind of horror show but apparently russian live in a more brutal universe. I shudder to think what the day to day life for an average russian must be like for them to shrug off this kind of tragic loss.
And Ukraine has only lost 31k soldiers since the war began. It's amazing.
People think this war is being fought with guns like other wars.
I'm not sure when this interview was recorded but we have been hearing for over a week now that addition to playing the guitar Blinken brought the permission to use us weapons anywhere they need to for defensive purposes. Including into Russia.
I agree concepts but if he's going to give interviews be up-to-date.
The senile old fool is talking through his backside.
No blinken was misunderstood and has now gone back on his word. But at least the UK has said the ukrainiens may use their munitions on russian teritory.
@@angela2726 Not any more. On 5/5/24 Russia threatened several countries (US,UK,France etc, via their ambassadors) that if their weapons were used against Russia itself, Russia would feel free to attack their bases anywhere. ALL of them, including the US and UK, backed down immediately, published the threat (as directed) on 6/5/2024 and confirmed their weapons wouldn't be used against Russia itself. The French were additionally forced to send their ambassador to Putin's re inauguration.
The UK published the threat in the Guardian (ONLY) on 6/5/24.
@@Telssa1 oh dear that is so sad. The problem is that Putin is crazy and you never know what he is really capable of 😢
Great interview. Realistic appraisal.
Half the population have left , the city is a wreck soon to be a ghost city he doesn't need to take it
I'd rather you tell us what stocks and shares he has as opposed to how many papers he's been involved with
Rusha is losing this war in slow motion.🤷♀️
Lol 😂 the Ukro bot can’t stop lying
@@davidjones-wt2qq Oh yes comrade, and the MOSKVA still sails as well😂😂😂
no doubt about it.
@@davidjones-wt2qqmore than two years now and Russia hasn't made any significant progress
@boota9029 You're the one that said pootin screamed it in March, I say february 22. And we've all seen the clips of him yelling the whole "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!"
Next month: why they took the city.
Thanks!
1:50 "Largely stabilized" Means the Russians are going forward 1.5 km every day and not 6 km like few days ago.
Mine sweeping
Meekay Jabow glad to see you again.
buffer zone .. never going to be honoured by Putin,s lot .
"Putin is looking increasingly confident." Wow, how the analysis has changed.
rusky said "just Training" , at 2022 ALSO ....
Not even ten minutes into this explosive interview and we see the soft underbelly of President Zelensky's war effort. We know the Ukrainians have suffered through 813 days of war, but what we hear from Robert Fox is that Ukraine's war effort has some holes in it and mistakes have been made and western support is coming albeit in drips instead of flood waters. The bottom line is that war is unpredictable and what you need is a mindset to win. I am betting on Zelensky getting through this thing and Ukraine winning all of its land back, but what is sure is that there are some battles ahead and lady luck is high on the list of demands from both sides of the conflict. We must remember that invading forces have less desire to win than the other side. Ukrainian forces may be worn out and exhausted, but they are still able to fight 3 times harder than a Russian conscript who knows no one in the Russian chain of command cares at all for his life.
People does not understand that though because most of the active duty military members are all dead or missing they have no one left all their special units are pretty much gone and they lost quite a few people in the chain of command and they have Soldiers with very low morale that is not a recipe to even win a a war no less a campaign the ukrainians fought better than the Vietnamese that was supposedly that was on our side during the Vietnam War or the Afghans that literally jump shipped when the US troops pulled out
Putin told you not after Kharkive lol ...Just a Buffer zone to keep Belogorad out of artillery range ..
You mean to get Kharkiv in range. Putin does not care about Belgorod and the destruction there was minimal anyway.
Turn the volume up
Russia is broke out of money😢
And you know this because?
He's broke and out of money 💰 😩
That's why Janet Yellen is running around trying to find new buyers for US treasury bills at the fear of not being able to finance the American state liabilities 😊
Does Russia need 1.5 million's Kharkiv to feed and supply before the next winter? 😅
Let's NATO do that🤓
Russia wants to bring its artillery closer to Kharkiv, and push Ukrainian artillery out of Russian borders 🙂
I agree as part of the story, but the new ammo and weapons have arrived and it's a new ballgame, the russians have missed the window of opportunity and will not get close enough to execute their burned soil approach. Surovikin is back on the other side, there's a potential mass mobilization that we don't know about as it now can take place in silence ( the russian legislation and systems have been put in place), but there simply are not enough trainers on the russian side and people are sent to the front with only 2 weeks training, they barely can operate at squad level (3-5 p), the economy is crumbling.
In the meantime, Ukraine has been focusing on Crimea and Krasnodar region for the last three days. (radars, air defence systems, Dzhankoi and Belbek airbases, port of Novorossisk, oil refinery of Tula), while ATACMS and HIMARS start to create havoc behind the enemy lines, demolishing logistics and warehouses.
There is no Moscow pact, no London pact, no Ottawa pact and no New York pact ... (referring to the support by the allied forces in WWII), no Bush tighs (American food support for russia). The outcome is predetermined.
Slava Ukraiini !
Heroyam Slava !
Sorry Comrade, you're in the wrong place, try Uranus.
Putin no,,,, but the Russian Solders Yes.....
Dont beee ridiculsssss!!!
What the heck is he talking about ? I can't tollow
Are the Ukrainians making a ruse? -
drawing the Russians past their defenses out in the open where they can be defeated?
So called "expert" criticising Ukraine for not building defences right at the border... Is it really such a great idea to send diggers 100m away from the border with RUS? Few villages were taken, thousands of RUS mercenaries were send to die for nothing (quite a few Nepalese). The offensive petered out pretty fast. Storm in the teacup.
That's not what he is saying. The story is - Zelensky himself was "inspecting" fortifications not so long ago and said, that everything was ready for defence. it's abviously wasn't. IMHO, lets rememeber that Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world (and that's by official USA agency account), so most likely, whoever was in charge did enough for that inspection and now is gone with the wind with the money. But that's just my theory.
As a matter of fact I would go and say that this guy is the most sane expert on this radio so far, the things he is saying about Kharkiv front aim is to draw resources from other fronts is very on point. Basically, it's kind of diversion to allow other fronts to keep progressing, because Ukrain forces can't ignore it, they already are throwing their best units at it. Russians never aimed to take Kharkiv, they never said it, whoever keeps saying that was the deal and Russians "miscaslculated" are straight up delusional.
@@funtictoc1660 As a deluded fantasist, your theory is an absolute steaming P.O.S.
@@funtictoc1660 "Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world" absolute complete and utter BS so complete lies so you're merely a lier; not a fraction as corrupt as Ruzzia, now; as that's relevant; even if it once may have been (which it actually wasn't - by far).
they clearly had defences, but some were wiped out by heavy bombs and the rest deserted or surrendered.
Failing is the only thing Poo-tin is proficient at.
And he's good at screaming "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!" 🤣
And being brainwashed is yours
@@dpelpalalso brainwashed
@@elonthun8012 The world knows the rushn army is a total joke. When India and Pak are laughing at your army, that's bad lol
@dpelpal not sure if you're trying to speak ill of Russia or you're putting down India and Pakistan in the process
So far 7.4 billion dollars of US aid delivered/promised. That leaves 19.3 billion dollars still to be delivered/promised.
F16 due in 6 weeks. They are being prepared and modernised. Pilots being trained. Russian economy in a terrible state.
Unclear why Ukraine needs to negotiate anything.
Rushn' economy went from "bad" to "joke" to hilarious in the space of 2 years🤣
Because Mass Media is feeding us with wrong information...I can see easly Russian army isn't as capable as US army, they still lack a lot of thing about battlefield intel, they have very good and very incompotent troops together in their army. But as whole Russian army isn't as incompotent as Western Media portreyed them, they are gathering data around line of contact with small drones, and destroy any worthy target with glide bombs, and artillery fire... So basically Ukranian side of 20-30 km back of line of contact is under constant fire and survelience. Sooner or later defenders keep depleting and retreat... Sooner if there are not enough entranched position, later if the area have good entrenched positions.
Plus that supply of rose-tinted spectacles.
Simple attrition
Interesting, so being number 5 economy in the world in purchasing power parity is a "terrible state" ? They just passed Germany. If you consider facts instead of wishful fantasy, you could recognize Russia will win this war. It is painful dealing with reality for you, but you can keep living in Lalaland if you want.
I belive Putin when he said he won't occupy Kharkiv as much as i believe he won't invade Ukraine in 2022. 😮
Sorry Uncle the word is not unrealistic. It is arrogance
Bet you a tenner he’s already took it.
Interesting reality and worthwhile interpretations in there, here's another one.
Putin has no plans to capture Kharkiv, and everyone is cheering because in their perception he admits defeat, but his plan may well be to get closer and flatten it ... he never said that he wanted to conquer the city, always look at the actions, not the words, rusnia's tactics till now has always been 'burned soil', if we can't have it, then no one will have it ...
The defense lines were not put on the border for the simple reason that the russians were within shooting range. Stay away from the russian narrative that there were serious mistakes made.
Ukraine keeps operational silence, but take a step back and observe. 3 Nights of bombing Crimea, and Krasnodar, disabling air defence and radar systems and pushing the russian airforce back (Dzhankoi, Belbek), demolishing the russian Black Sea fleet's fallback port of Novorossisk, disabling another oil refinery (Tula) that was sending crude oil to Turkey, where it gets blended and then ends up in the EU (brilliant loophole in the sanctions there, excuse my sarcasm). The Ukrainians are fighting a war of attrition, and running a race against time with their drone developments (AI, baba yagas, FPVs, mother drones, drone squads, these are brilliant guys, they were the brains of the russian military industrial complex (with eg a missile factory under the tractor plant in Kharkiv ...).
Of course, with the new American munitions and weapons arriving, at this moment the game has changed and we may well be able to keep putin far enough from Kharkiv. But don't forget that Surovikin has come back ... give him some time, he's good and cruel, Putin's inauguration has passed and that guy no longer needs to keep up appearances. Mass mobiilization, the digital systems have been put in place, no public chasing people anymore. Never underestimate your adversary.
On the other hand, putin's visit to China was a disaster. Xi Jinping was not there to welcome him, just a subordinate to welcome putin when he got of the plane. A commercial deal on artisjoks and beef cartelage and stomacs, and russia rented for 99 years a geographical area larger than France to China (to protect the big cat, cq Siberian tiger, but the Chinese have already started exploiting the area)
Before putin's inauguration, 'all is fine' was the message that came from the propagandists and the head of the national bank, within a week after putin's inauguration, inflation in russia is communicated to be back at 8%. And official channels deny it was communicated differently before. Interesting how russia is a master in changing narratives, they're real spindoctors. But things are not going well, and although the posture of putin may reflect confidence (is it ?), putin is a dead man walking but he does not know it yet.
Slava Ukraiini !
Heroyam Slava !
1) Putin isn't going to flatten Kharkiv. 2) Ukraine had plans to fortify the area with dragon's teeth and mines but didn't. It's not catastrophic though by any means. 3) Russia doesn't "public chase". That is Ukraine. 4) It's unlikely Russia even needs a mass mobilization. Russia currently has a massive advantage in basically everything with voluntary recruitment. 5) I couldn't find anything about Russia leasing an area "larger than France" to China. Russia and China did agree to create a nature preserve for tigers and leopards that extends across both borders called the "Land of Big Cats".
Guess what he will
You have to admire Times Radio for its ability to find analysts from many fields but all comedians lol
This Clown was signing on as unemployed last week.
Saw this yesterday with a different title. Today it earned a solid Down vote.
And what if I don't think Russia won't take Kharvov?
Did not Putin add 'for now' in his recent Q&A?
I think Russia will take Kharkov and whatever else is required to create a buffer zone between it and Ukraine, just like they have consistently said for the reasons they have consistently said. Then Ukraine will surrender the territories it has lost, peace will prevail, and we can get on with our lives of our own countries being destroyed by the implememtatiation of policies we never agreed to or were consulted about.
Too little too late and with strings attached, let alone the whole rest. And we're still here philosophizing and criticizing.
Look to pootin the puny actions in Georgia. Slow creeping advance there. In Ukraine the appearance since the initial plan of taking Kiev in three days, has been to push probing attacks into different areas to keep the Ukrainian Armed Forces guessing where they will attack next. This supplies slow creeping advance.
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah.... ya know??
Really, you try to make us suffer through this twice, i do not understand why Times radio wants two thumbs down on the same clip by the same person every time, not very good for ratings.🙃
The folks watching this are with IQ 30 seems like ,....Judging by the comments 6:24
Mariupol was a liberation from Ukraine, not a tragedy. No one is Eastern Ukraine supports the Kiev regime which has been firing artillery shells at the locals for them refusing to recognize the 2014 coup d'etat.
Ukrain is winning backwards
Thanks for your honesty and realism 👍🌈
No need for sarcasm!
@@daviddesert3132 no sarcasm here ...
@@roelpiepenbrink700 Yes there is Sarcasm here.
Moi......
Ukraine soldiers were walking fast but people mistook that for fleeing
Remember Putin said he wouldn’t invade Ukraine. Mad man 😡😡😡
8 minut .... o o o o o o of the removal of the o o o o o o o /.//// god please teach this man to talk normally
Before the war begin he has see that he won't attack ukrania. This président don't has words.he is crazy man😂😂😂😂
Ukraine did build the defences. The Ukrainians people have seen the bills that their government paid for the said defences. Unless someone stole the money I guess
Always count on Times Radio for an endless parade of colonel Blimps.
And Karkiv isn't sitting on a recently discovered and quite enormous deposit of high grade lithium either.
That's right, it isnt.
@@Withnail1969 But Mariupol is.
@@dalecrocker3213 Neither of them is. its like the supposed enormous gas reserves. there's nothing viable there. The Donbas has been mined and explored for a long long time.
Whats the point of more resources to a country with the most resources in the world and yet 80% of the population doesn’t have toilets at home, or use wood for heating like in 1920s .. or have no paved roads.. dirt roads!
And who is going to buy the lithium if Ukrainian partisans would destroy ships, building and liquidate anyone buying it
This is the 21 century its time Putin & the idiots club wake up to it
You miss the point, but that's fine, understanding Putin is difficult for a sane mind.
Whos this military genuis? 😂
Where did I hear this before? Ah, yeah Avdiivka.
Mumbled incoherence.
NATO should enter Ucraine for humanitarian reasons considering that Ucraine did not invade Russia
And Russia uses 'Defense Forces'.
We in America want to help Ukraine, but the general sense is that many European countries need to do much more for themselves.
Speak for yourself the majority in America don't want to help what we want is for America to mind its own business and take care of it's own country 🤔
@@MM-zm5qx Funny, the USA has NEVER done that now, has it?
@@user-ze7vb5cx3y @ No but there is a saying called there is a first time for everything 🤔
Europe can't afford it.
There is little public support for further austerity to support increased military spending.
And anyway, putin isn't going to invade Europe.
The threats to Europe aren't military, they are economic.
Neither can the US, but because deficits don't matter in the US, they spend the money anyway.
Of course, when the debt bomb the Americans have built explodes, as it must, the US will find itself in a pickle.
@@MM-zm5qx Sadly you only get to say that at the end of the USAs proxy war, it's not over 'till the senile POTUS fudges his lines at the last.
The problems the Ukraine forces are having is no trains and it's raining hot steel on their side of the front.
This guy is just reciting Russian talking points - no credibility at all.
Totally agree..this guy mentioned nothing about Ukrainian successes..uggghhh😡
@@goldienorman9402because there are none, all has been done by Mercs, Nato & States bail outs in aid packages
Russia has lost this war. Once Ukraine has been restocked with ammo and equipment it will be impossible for Russia to make any strategic gains. Ukraine has had no ammo, no anti-air, no artillery shell, and no Airforce for the last 8 months and they have still held the Russians back. Ukraine is far from finished.
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Ukraine is being bled white. They had to lower the draft age. They are trying to force Ukrainians expats/refugees to return and fight. They've talked about drafting women. A third of the country has already left. Much of the rest would leave if they could. Ukraine isn't finished, but short of an intervention by NATO, Russia will not lose.
@@gaborjuraj2843 Now, try to write down your twaddle once again... but in English this time. So we can laugh at you all together.
@@lorenzcassidy3960 What? You did not understand what he wrote? It was quite easy to understand.....or something 😂🤣😅😆😁😄
That is a bold statement no where near based in reality.
Are you going to be naive enough to believe anything thisguy has to say? Give me a break!
He is a deluded fantasist.
The way these experts talk big and lament about USA not sending resources! Ukraine should have known better… Ukraine is winning, you have our support but it is USA to send the money!
Mr.Fox has mediocre analysis. Ukraine has defence in depth, not a hard defensive line near the border. It is another full defenive line back... it is odd that he doesn't say this. the AFU couldn't build trenches within 10km of the border because they were constantly under fire. Weak analysis.
It wasn't that they didn't know how to build defenses, it was they new how better to take our money and run with it.
Mote nonsense from Times Radio
It's was corruption (not done properly) on defensive line near kharkiv
Putin can't take it more like it
What Allied forces will take is foreign investors funded AFU, by attrition son
Foreign aid is taking money from poor people from the rich countries and give to the rich people from the poor countries
If Putin says he wil not take Kharkiv he will ATTEMPT TO DO IT ,he thinks he’s smarter then rest but he is not
He can’t take but he wants
Team "West" is making me sick.
ah yes - the moronz mirror haha, just flip whatever the z bots are saying for a grip on reality in ruzzia
My BS meter got into the red zone rapidly with this guy.
Mine went off the scale as soon as he opened his mouth. This deluded space cadet is a basket case.
Ukrainian's for the most part speak Russian fluently, good thing!
I don't think he only wants donbas, he still wants all. He is now driven by his fascist fairy tales and genuinely believes them. He could not talk about anything else in his interview with Tucker.
Agreed I don't know why so many talking heads give him the benefit of the doubt. He tried to take the capital and failed losing his best units in a humiliating defeat. He very recently positioned nuclear weapons to Belarus, on Poland's border as an obvious don't interfere threat - that move in of itself states his intent goes far beyond just the SE.
@@bache72 Also the benefit of the doubt is not enough for this kind of thing. It is about the freedom of millions of people and so we can give the benefit of the doubt to Putin? That is not how the security of countries works. We must have believable deterrence and sadly the US is less reliable as an ally than it used to be.
That means we need a strong and independent Ukraine.
Shame on Russia
This guy's clueless.
worst US propaganda ever!
Finally, someone with common sense! What's going on, Times Radio?
Brilliant Guest!
What a comment on Blinken!
Game over! Psychologically & Militarily illiterate remark
He is giving you a dose of realism
Keep pumping Ukraine is winning wet dreams lol
And poor Russia -- it can't do anything right. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Robert Fox - ill informed, given a forum as if he is some sort of expert.
Yeah, not worth the tiime listening to this old geezer. The evening standard, is that some kinda socialist magazin?
Wow! This guy is not very knowledgeable on military facts.
Shame on Putin
Robert Fox is right in saying that the Russian military will not attempt to re-run attacks like in 2022 on Kharkiv city and his use of the word "invest" is interesting outwith its military usage.
The reasons are a mixture of mutual pragmatism and Russian history, so one has to know a bit and, sadly for the west, ignorance prevails.
I disagree with Fox re Mariupol because it was a stronghold of the Azov very large and brutal militia (which Zelenskyy made into a regiment but the AFU rejected the thugs). Mariupol was earmarked for replacement anyway with expanded portage and shipyards along the coast but when the Azov's dug in and held hostages under the steelworks and sent wrecking parties to disrupt the railways, Russian forces had no option but to evacuate civilians as best they could [aided by Ukrainian railway workers outstanding bravery] then flatten the city. Air power was not organized enough for what we see now so artillery, missiles and sapper platoons were used.
I know this from the initial refugees whom I helped with IT here in Ireland were from that city.
It is worth seeing the progress on new Mariupol undertaken by Russians and Ukrainians -- not that the western press will show that.
The strange status of Kharkiv with Moscow has two strands, one dating back to when it was the capital city of the Ukrainian SSR 1919-34 then (no longer as capital) the craft jewel in the crown of metals production from the mines and steel ingots of the Donbas, making machine tools, vehicles, the famous T-34 'Kharkov' tank and it meshed with Russia's metallurgy industries in Veronezh and Belgorod oblasts.
It was also a cultural hub of old Ukraine relatively close to Moscow's 'Muscovite' cultural showpiece city and capital of Russia/Soviet Union and associations with the Russian imperial period.
Fox mentions other 'probes' and all of these date from 'New Russia', built during the reign of Catherine the Great, whereas Peter the Great's interests rather earlier had been on securing territories often dominated by Sweden and allies until his victories in the Great Northern War and building of St Petersburg. Whereas Catherine's forebear had been more interested in trade and economics, she wanted a Russian 'shop window' in a less cold climate.
Note that Kiev/Kyiv had had a different developmental history and was often as much Polish-Lithuanian as 'Ukrainian' or 'Russian'.
The other strand relevant to now connects to history but because modern Kharkiv and Sumy have relied on Russian railways for their export consistency since the big slide into decay after 1993 then especially post-2013 Maidan splits and massive indebtedness worldwide, Russia offers routes to the Black Sea and now much more important markets of Asia as well as access to oceanic routes via Iran and/or what the Chinese call 'the Caspian leg' of their initial BR Initiative, which had to be changed a bit when Biden ran away from Afghanistan.
The shape and types of governance post-conflict per area of what is now the Rep of Ukraine depend upon what the people choose BUT a Kharkiv/Moscow accord would have the dual advantage of efficiency all round, a possible role for Kharkiv in a semi-autonomous Donbas as well as cultural and production links to the southern and western regions excepting Kiev nexus oblasts -- not that there are many.
Lviv will probably seek independence (as it tried to in 2019), some areas stolen by Stalin at Potsdam could be reclaimed and it is possible that an administrative 'capital' of federated Ukraine could be at Dnipro city.
The 'west' is humiliated, the USA did not get its proxy war using Ukrainian blood, the EU Commission's excesses have been exposed and NATO needs to return to its charter then discuss full status and affiliate status of countries -- or simply shut up shop.
Pooptin/russia: we have now taken 5km at the cost of 500k russians, 7000 russian armoured infantryman, russia is not a major threat only bluff like north korea
Kate is wonderful and consider bringing out a swimwear calanderfor her fans, it would sell out !
Reason and reality are absent in this interview.
Russian narrative
I think he is wrong! But only time will tell !
It doesn't matter if Russia takes it, or any other particular city, right now. What matters is they have the initiative, and they have it under threat.