This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

🇺🇦 War Update: Mike Martin


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As Ukraine's military continues to reclaim swathes of land from Russia, could this past week be a watershed moment in the war? How did Kyiv's forces manage it? And if Putin does lose the war, what will instability in the Kremlin mean for the rest of Europe? Mike Martin, author and War Studies fellow at King's College London, joins Arthur Snell for our latest war update.

We're putting out irregular war bulletins covering different aspects of the Ukraine crisis. You can support our work on the crowdfunding app Patreon: doomsdaywatch.co.uk

Resources to help the Ukrainian people can be found here: https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

Get tickets to our upcoming London live show: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/etmejHAuba

  • “The Ukrainians are really good at misdirecting the Russians.”
  • “Armies tend to mirror their country’s culture. Russia has a very hierarchical army.”
  • “Russia’s army is conscripted, which means lowly skilled and lowly motivated recruits.”
  • “If I was the Ukrainian enemy I wouldn’t go anywhere near the Donbas.”
  • “In this process of the transfer of power in Russia, what happens to nuclear weapons? There are five thousand of them.”
  • “If Ukraine can get down to the Black Sea coast, that is potentially war-ending.”

  • DOOMSDAY WATCH was written and presented by Arthur Snell, and produced by Robin Leeburn with Jacob Archbold. Theme tune and original music by Paul Hartnoll. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. DOOMSDAY WATCH is a Podmasters production

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