Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

'Russia is in big trouble' as deep strikes hit Yandex and Putin's bots | Maj. Gen. Mick Ryan

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'Trump's been played' again as Putin's diesel supply likely already destroyed by Ukraine | Tim Ash

Trump's deal to buy Russian oil won't make a dent in the US fuel crisis even if any Russian fuel arrives in America at all, Economist Tim Ash tells Philip Ingram on Front

Putin’s drones decimated by Ukraine’s new AI robot guns | Yuriy Sak

“They are using AI to identify targets in the sky, to calculate the trajectory, to calculate where it’s going. Much more efficient than the human eye.” New robot turrets

Will Putin Aim to Create a Land Corridor to Moldova? | Frontline

“It does look like Vladimir Putin is intent on linking up mainland Russia, if you will, through southern Odesa into Moldova.” Michael Bociurkiw and Michael Bociurkiw dis

Putin’s cronies know their troops are ‘ineffective’ | Amb. Volker

“Inside the Kremlin, they know that Ukraine is able to fight back, and that’s why they’re escalating their hybrid attacks against NATO.” Russia knows it is slowly losin

Putin’s troops fooled by a Trojan horse in Operation Vivaldi | Shaun Pinner

“They parachuted ground vehicles in behind enemy lines and drove them.” Journalist and British Army veteran Shaun Pinner describes how Ukrainian troops managed to drive

Putin’s people fear China’s political takeover | Ian Williams

“There is a fear that, look across the border, there is an economically successful, teaming in population terms, rival. At what point does China seek to turn its economic

Putin’s army is in ‘survival mode’ as fortress belt assault collapses | George Barros

“The Russian idea of encircling the fortress belt within the next six months—that’s not going to happen.” Russia’s 25th Combined Arms Army is in “survival mode”, trying

Frontline footage shows Ukrainian commander's rescue under Russian drone attack | Maxim Tucker

Lieutenant Vladyslav Polskyi has won Ukraine’s highest military honour for rescuing two wounded soldiers in the ‘kill zone’. Maxim Tucker discusses his time speaking with

Putin’s people ‘are starting to get angry!’: Ukraine's spy chief reveals intelligence | Maxim Tucker

“Discontent is starting to rumble among the population.” Ukraine’s new spy chief has received intelligence suggesting that the Russian people are beginning to express th

Putin ‘deliberately targeted’ train with former UK PM | Lord Ricketts

“They were certainly deliberately targeting to kill the people, to destroy the train, or at the very least to send a very intimidating signal that it is dangerous for Wes

Putin’s self-deception is driving Russia towards operational disaster | Keir Giles

“If you have a command structure that thinks Russia is already in charge of a piece of territory and sends more people in, they die in their hundreds.” Putin’s self-dece

Putin loses major position in Ukraine’s biggest operation since Kursk | Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

“Ukraine has managed to attack Russia where it is weak.” Ukraine has managed to suppress Russian drones using manpower and armour in Lyman and hold its position, says fo

Witkoff and Kushner’s ‘doomed diplomacy’ plays into Putin’s trap | Scott Lucas

“Witkoff plays right into it … The idea that you’ve been spun by the Kremlin I don’t know how many times is at the top of your list?” Witkoff and Kushner’s visit to Mosc

‘Knuckleheads’ Witkoff and Kushner’s Kyiv visit was ‘embarrassing’ | Lt Gen Ben Hodges

“Where is the secretary of state, Mr Rubio? … He is absolutely AWOL.” Witkoff and Kushner’s visit to Kyiv was “hard to watch” after they sucked up to Putin during their

'Putin is completely mad' | Anna Zafesova

“Putin's pursuing his own delirious ideas... first he invented history, now he’s inventing biology,” A total consensus is forming across Russia that Putin has gone compl

Putin suffers major operational blows in Fortress Belt and Kinburn Spit | Maj. Gen. Chip Chapman

“The Russians have had a miscellaneous ‘F’ failure there.” Ukrainian firepower and drone control over logistical lines of communication have put 2,500 Russian troops in

Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine | Mikhail Khodorkovsky

He was once Russia's richest man. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was thrown in jail for urging democratic change in Russia and since getting out and leaving Russia more than a deca

Putin craves support, but the mood in Russia has turned | Exiled politician Boris Nadezhdin

On this episode of Frontline, Amy Kellogg sits down with Putin critic and exiled Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin for an extended interview. Boris was perhaps one of th

Putin resorts to "mystic" measures as Russians turn against "broken" economy | Robert Fox

Robert Fox, Defence Editor for the Evening Standard, talks to the Frontline's Philip Ingram on Putin's election troubles, Russia's "broken" economy and iconicalism on th