Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

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

Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Show Notes

“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 losing on the battlefield, as it is losing troops and replacing them with poorly trained men, says Ambassador Kurt Volker, former US special envoy to Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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