“The Russians are pretty largely stuck… and that’s pretty uncomfortable for Putin.”

Putin may be “overstretching himself” by trying to stir up trouble in Nato countries while not making any advances in Ukraine, says former British ambassador Lord Ricketts.

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"How does this plan come out when there's little chance it's going to be accepted?"

Russia's "secret" peace plan drawn up with Steve Witkoff looks unlikely to succeed as the White House begins to push back against Putin's "wishlist", Prof. Scott Lucas tells Kate Gerbeau on Frontline.

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“He is literally pushing them off the balcony.”

“Things aren’t all rosy in Putin’s garden”, says for British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton Gordon, after the Russian leader betrays his closest men by declaring them as foreign agents.

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“Putin has annexed more territory than he’s actually got.”

Putin will find it very difficult to get past Pokrovsk as his 12-month campaign is destroyed by greater Ukrainian arm supplies, says former British Army soldier who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces Shaun Pinner.

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"Russia knows full well that there's lots of supplies coming to it from the West and inevitably wants to target that."

Bombing attacks on a Polish train and rail line into Ukraine is part of a Russian state attack according to the Polish government, Sean Bell explains why Russia would target the rail network and what the fallout could be on Frontline for Times Radio.

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“Lavrov may have fallen out of a window.”

If Putin’s scapegoat, Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, has disappeared it shows the “end of the regime is nigh”, says Russia expert Diane Francis.

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“Pokrovsk is bleeding Russia dry.”

Russia is losing 700-800 men a day as Ukraine manages to keep all supply corridors to the city open, says former British diplomat Cormac Smith.

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“They believe Russia has lost 350,00 casualties this years so far, and they are currently losing 1008 a day.”

Ukraine is eliminating Russian troops in Pokrovsk despite Putin’s propaganda trying to spin the opposite, says former British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.

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“When people raise objections to this, within the military, they are sent on what is in effect a suicide mission.”

Putin’s officers are engaged in “massive corruption”, diverting resources to the Russian army, but anyone who speaks out is eliminated, says former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service Nigel Inkster.

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“The fact that Russian economy relies of rent payments and internal corruption that comes form oil and gas industries will have an impact on the system.”

Pressures are piling up on Putin after Ukraine’s large scale attack hits 22 out of 38 large oil refineries, explains Chatham Houses’ Orysia Lutsevych. 

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