and earlier we spoke to frank leg, which he's a senior electron merger strategy at the university of portsmouth in england. and a former military intelligence office and asked him if russia would see fin, than joining nato as a provocation. well, 1st of all, from a strategic perspective, it is likely to provoke russia. but we can put that aside. it represents, of course, a defeat on that sort of higher level for potent, more than doubles the length of his border with nato. given that one of the cause, suppose the causes of war was to push back. that seems rather setback as you had both of these, a formidable military power is a very impressive armed forces and defense industries. they're going to fit in very well. they'll be warmly welcomed by the new comrades. and we will have every respect to the skills and approach. that's why course is that prime minister said this is going to happen in weeks to other further matters that are quite interesting. one is the fit, particularly in feminine. they haven't total national defense concept. a little bit like ukraine's accept far better developed over

he's now a senior lecture in law and strategy at the university of portsmouth. very one. welcome to the w, sir. the battle for my you, paul, we understand is raging as we speak. a moment ago, a ukraine's defense mystery spokesperson characterized the situation right now in my tuple as extremely difficult, but added, it has not been taken in full by russian forces. do we know about the ukrainian forces still holding out there? yes, we know a little bit the made core of the defenders is composed by the us of battalion, which is highly experienced. a bunch of fighters have been fighting off the last 8 years in that region. from the russian perspective are often seen as highly nationalistic, very far right wing, and aid himself of the us about symbolic target. the other unit that made it unit is the a unit of thought ukrainian marines, many from, i think, were captured earlier this week. is my, your, mary up, or would you say a defining battle in the course of this war? and if so, why is it so important? yes, i think so later from 22 perspective, from the russian perspective,

military intelligence officer who now lectures in military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth, england. he talked to me about the progress russian troops are making in this eastern assault. well they started what's called the artillery preparation and some initial probing attacks such as criminal which your correspondence mention . it's quite a small town actually has been fought over for a number of years or please contest it. they are not really set already for this operation. something of this size that really take several minutes to set up. they've had a few weeks. there needs to be logistics networks fully and fully protected and secure and so forth. all kinds of things they should have done haven't actually, of a lot of pressure on the russians to get things done. and i think that's going to backfire . so to answer your question directly, it's raining now. it's, it's warm, it's going to be a terrible day for the defenders. lot of people going to get killed that the russians are in some trouble, i think from, from the perspective preparation. all right, so when we look at

doing the reverse of the 6 generally do. frankly, richer senior electrolyte strategy at the university of portsmouth. thank you very much for taking the time to take our questions greatly appreciate it. thank you. the victors games a competition for wounded military veterans is underway in the hague, in the netherlands. despite the war, ukraine has sent a team. they want to draw attention to the plight of their homeland and when some metals, once this is over, dmitri will get back to defending his country. he's one of 19 ukranian veterans competing here, given special permission to do so by president volota me as zalinski. us would have been over it all. government decided we should be here despite the difficult situation to us. i talked to the world, tell the world that people are dying, but also that others are fighting and surviving. the, not all of the tea made it out. there archery coach demetrius a dork was killed in fighting earlier this month. because of it, at one of the, the lensky used his nightly address to congratulate the ukrainian team on its early success when the competition is 1st

intelligence offering officer and they'll lectures and military capabilities and strategies at the university of portsmouth. thank you very much for being with the serve. first of all, frank, what's your assessment of the progress that russia is making in its assault on eastern ukraine? well, terry, the 1st thing to be said is, this is an additional battle where russia may make small gains and indeed we're seeing knocks and nibbling away your credit lines in one or 2 of the more vulnerable areas. are you currently in the position that they're going to lose this battle? they have started this operation to early, no competent military force would have taken 2 weeks to try and research from a major defeated or the russians did, which indicates 2 things. first into political pressure, and secondly, the trying to out race, nato supplies to ukraine, the heavy weapons helene that was talking about russia face is huge problems and 30 percent casualty. so full, not enough mass. they really haven't experienced this kind of operation. so my assessment is they remain in serious trouble. so you doubt that russia will u

now, lecturers in military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth concerning the weapons themselves. they got an old design, but they've been modernized, they've been out of service from in a german. i'm only about 10 years. and many are. we still use an extremely formidable short range, but if you're a pilot, there's nothing you can do about them. if you get near same applies by the way, the british vehicles they sent, but it's not only directly affected, but the possession of it keeps, keeps, it keeps aircraft away, it's a deterrent. but what's significant gerhardt is that the most recent trying to weapons deliveries from the west, not only note or the suite as well, or interesting for another reason. all of these now nato standard items that different from the soviet stuff that east european nations been passing on and will continue to. now there's also training implications in this because you can't just hand over these, these gephart and expect people to use and their radar guided guns are quite complex. it will take a few weeks to train on that. so i will be fairly

and alex's in military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth. frank, what do we know about this? a miss al? should we be worried? no, not really. analissa been waiting for this vehicle. this rocket to be tested for about a year. park of a decade long program to replace what nato calls the say to him, by the way was made to me pro in ukraine to the other night late eighty's early ninety's. so we're looking for a replacement for this is it? it was tested yesterday. nothing particularly to worry about because it's likely to be, it was accompanied by the expected sabre rattling, but it's really nothing particularly out of the ordinary. there's been a lot of speculation as to whether moscow my turn to tactical nuclear weapons. this is an interconnected continental strategic missile. but what does it say about the nuclear threat? well, it has to be said that there is a nuclear threat arising from ukraine. it's different in scale from that presented by the, the new miss style that was tested yesterday. and it is a serious threat. we speak a lot, don't w

he's now his senior lecturer in law in strategy at the university of portsmouth, frank, it's good to have you back on the program to night. you know, expectations and predictions in this war in ukraine, they've proven to be perilous, but mario polls fate. it seems certain to night me, despite maybe 2000 ukrainian soldiers refusing to surrender, the russians are about to take control it is that your assessment is well well, i think that we may be holding an end to this particular back a little early. those 2 and a half 1000 soldiers, which are elements of the, your kind of marines as well as the as of the time in very formidable fight to represent a really big obstacle for the russians. and the us of style plant is several square kilometer as far as i can see of industrial buildings. and it reminds me not only me of another battle in a battle city which was constantly near its end and the defenders held on. and that's the about of stalingrad and particularly the red october steel plant that and that held out for 3 months. now these guys want to hold out that long, but i don't think th

and now lecturers in military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth in the u. k. frank, the people in this report make intercepting russian communications look very easy. is it really well what this speaks to go heart is pull russian equipment, training and culture. and the 1st thing that i need to be able to organize themselves, probably a secure communications that preferably, cannot be intercepted. and in this case, as you'll see, as we saw just that i'm, it is an open source intelligence there. just let alone, highly capable of creating a nato operators. find it very easy to break, break into russian communications systems. and of course, phoning home which we saw that with the 2 happy couple. one of which on i can say it's non hospital for moons. that's the soldier who was asking a girlfriend for commission anyway. if you don't have secure communications either with each other with home, you know, on, on them all, you need to have a culture what's called a need to know culture. and that's far more important than the communications that's a cultural matter.

the reverse as the 6 generally do. frankly, richer senior electron line strategy at the university of portsmouth. sir, thank you very much for taking the time to take our questions greatly appreciate it . thank you. all. despite the renewed assault on ukraine, russia suffered a major loss. the black sea flagship, the muskrat sank after allegedly being hit by ukrainian missiles, something the kremlin denies. now images have emerged, appearing to show the worship on fire and engulfed in smoke just moments before it went down. the missile cruiser was the biggest russian warship lost in action since world war 2. and a short time ago, i spoke to the w correspondent, konstantin, egret, and i asked him how damaging the sinking of moskva is for the kremlin? very much so you know, i was, i was, i spoke to several minutes or analysts including some specialist in enable affairs over the last 48 hours. and basically the unanimous assessment is that this is of course not only terrible p r and then sure that basically the whole rushing on tools is as well not very competent. but it also points in the view of

doing the reverse of the 6 generally do frankly, richer senior lecture alive strategy at the university of portsmouth. sir, thank you very much. for taking the time to take our questions greatly appreciate it. thank you. all. despite the renewed assault on ukraine, russia has suffered a major loss. the black sea flagship, the mosque sank after allegedly being hit by ukrainian missiles. something that the kremlin denies will now images have emerged appearing to show the worship on fire, and engulfed in smoke just moments before he went down. the missile cruiser was the biggest russian warship lost in action since world war to okay, let's try to find out what the ramifications are. of this, sir, did of correspondents and russia, alice constantine, egret, joints, me, now, constantine, these pictures that we just saw, the sinking of the mosque are going viral. how damaging are these images for? president putin got much. so, you know, i was, i was, i spoke to several minutes or analysts including some specialist in enable affairs over the last 48 hours. and basically the unanimous assessment is that this

ukraine. franklin, which is a senior lecturer and military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth. i asked him what russia strategy is in easton, ukraine. right now, the probing ukrainian lines. there are 3 or 4 towns that that's fighting as we speak. the ukraine is approved themselves to be excellent at drawing russians into prepared positions and prepared defences. and so they're stuck in fighting in 3 or 4 towns. russians are making a small amount of pros, progress. and charles's report showed earlier, of course, a leverage and no advantage or dance for the moment in artillery to cause his very logistics dependent. so we'll see if this campaign goes on. but the russians can sustain, as they couldn't in the north, the logistics and supply, particularly crucial when when they're making up for lack of manpower with fire power of artillery missiles the you and human rights officers described the war and ukraine as a horror story of violations against civilians, there is evidence mounting of war crimes being committed, and these include indiscriminate shedding and bombing of oxidati

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russia at franklin bridge is a senior lecturer, minutes you can receive in strategy at the university of portsmouth here, and you can join us for scott promote. so thanks for being with us. again, just want to ask you about the line that's being pushed again by the us defense secretary lloyd austin, wanting to see if we can russia as he put it in the free ukraine. how much difference would it make to be stating that aim openly about russia? yes, law. and it's significant, of course, because it leaves the way open for russia to allege that nato's using ukraine is a proxy. but look, this decision was made in early april, inside. i think before that when the u. s. congress decided to pass the lend lease arrangements making us once again the arsenal of democracy. so in terms of what's going to happen on the ground, it means little. but it is a significant development in terms of the rhetoric and given how much equipment and the west is promising to keep sending to, to ukraine. how difficult will it be to, for russia to, to maintain the kind of losses it's, it's had off until now. while today they once

frank led, which is a senior lecturer and military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth. he here in the u. k. ga, fos, skype from oxford. thanks very much for being with us. we'll just start with how significant it is that this opened admission from, from the russians that they want to seize all of southern and eastern ukraine. laura and i wonder if this is flag flag to see what your action it throws out. but if it's genuine, it's interesting for 2 reasons. first of all, this is the old region of nevada. you are looking to last francs now, which i just remember to see if we can get him back. i'm not sure if we, if he's back at all but not to did seem to freeze, we'll try and resend it. we establish chef. i'm interested in come back to me and in a moment. but in the meantime the you and human rights officers described the word ukraine as a horror story of violations against civilians. there is evidence of war crime scene. ringback and these include indiscriminate shunning and bombing are populated areas, summary, execution up to the dns. as i said, the vast majority of vi