'Russia has lost lots of equipment, large numbers of troops for relatively limited gains' 

I think he's right by stating that a successful democratic Ukraine would be Putin's worst nightmare. I hope he lives long enough to witness that.

Moral blindness is no excuse for accepting Russian aggression.

The main thing, not mentioned, is that Ukraine has huge areas of oil and natural gas reserves, which the Russians are after. It is really not because of too many Nazis there. And Ukraine, will then be a valuable member, for the EU.

Blessings and luck from California to Ukraine 🙏🍀💙💛

Ukrainian resolve to fight is high. They could equip and train many more given the resources. We must continue to supply them.

Q: How can you tell when a Russian government spokesman is lying? A: His lips move. Slava Ukraini!

Cut the insurance coverage for any and all ships going in and out of Russia, that's 97% of all insurance companies that insures international shipping. They will have to self insure and they don't have the ability. Without insurance shipping can not pass through the Suez Canal, or the straights of Constantinople between the Black sea and the Mediterranean. Also completely cut Russia off from the entire Swift network, this will bring the Bolshevik economy to it's knees.

TO ALL WESTERN VIEWERS: Greetings from America. Ukraine is a cause worth fighting for. Let's all contact our government representatives to urge them to increase military aid to Ukraine. You can call your representatives, send them an email, send them a good old-fashioned letter, respond to one of their Tweets ... something. Take the time to help Ukraine now ... you'll be proud of yourself when you do.

Russia just sailed a warship into Danish territory. The politicians try to pretend "they have our back" but I - and many more - pressure our government to show no telerance of this sort of provocation. We have every opportunity to destroy such a ship and I am sure it will be done if it happens again. Greetings from Denmark!

We need to send more stuff to Ukraine, if we do not want to get directly involved, then send all of our stuff to Ukraine, we can make more and boost our production. The most important issue is that Putin should not win and, the scariest country on the planet: China, is waiting to take over a lot of South East Asia because they think we are weak and do not care. I never thought in all my years we would face a world conflict, now I know I was wrong. Dictators do not care about the world and elected politicians only care about re-election. What a mess.

The long and short of it is, no. They can’t keep absorbing these losses in hardware and experienced personnel. Look at how their tactics have already changed. Their jets and helicopters no longer fly long range sorties over none friendly ground, and the number of cruise missile strikes is diminishing rapidly. The only advantage they have left of thousands of artillery pieces. And if Ukraine gets efficient at destroying them while preserving their own artillery, the war will eventually shift in Ukraine’s favor.

I want to thank Putin and his superb army for being Ukraine's #1 tank supplier. Well done chaps!

This has been an abysmal failure on the part of Russia. It's made tactical gains, and will continue to make some more. But having gained a further ~10% of the poorest end of the poorest country in Europe, having destroyed it, it's done so at huge cost. In the long term it's very hard to see how Russia can make anything useful out of this. The fact that countries such as some of the African nations don't condemn Russia's actions is not surprising given their own huge economic and political failings.

Democracies: Send brave 'Ukes' 100's of longer range heavy materiel and anything else they need pronto; let them finish the job Putin started. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇨🇦!!

Lavrov is Russia's version of comical Ali.😆

Russia's history is of troops as cannon fodder and the loss of territory as temporary. Over 20M lost their lives in WWII; current losses are a pittance by comparison and presented as such by Russian Media to the population. Only superior force and crushing destruction will convince Russia of their failures. Half-measures by the West will just make Russia more determined.

To date, the Russians have lost what amounts to be a heavy Corps (4 Divisions) in troops, equipment and supplies. However, those loses have to be put in the context that the majority of men lost were combat troops (who take years to train). The equipment losses are Russia's most modern ground equipment, aircraft, surface ships and a significant portion of their stocks of precision guided weapons. That the Russians are drawing T-62M's from their war reserve stocks shows how low they've run in 1st line equipment, how desperate they are to husband those resources and how many causalities they are willing to accept to do it. This begs the question, how willing are the Russians to see their son's killed to conserve T-90's?

“The Anvil always breaks the hammer” All Ukraine needs to do to win is keep fighting

I want Ukraine to force Russia out of its territory. However, can Russia sustain these loses? The answer is yes. Russia is fighting a lower-tech war of attrition in which state-of-the-art weapons are not needed and human life, on either side, is not valued. I believe Adolf Putin is fully prepared to wage a twenty-year war, and most Russians, for now, agree with him so long as he can show progress.

We must give Ukraine far more military, financial and moral support. With this they can still win. They need and deserve it. They are fighting for us all. Not only is this a war for democracy in Ukraine, the downfall of Putin and his ilk could herald a new democratic Russia. Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦

People keep talking about sanctions having no effect. You don’t knee cap an economy over night. Russia has already taken steps that are temporarily propping up the ruble, but which will lead to their economy tanking in the long run from capping and putting a huge penalty on exchanging rubles for foreign currencies, freezing foreign accounts, seizing billions of dollars in foreign owned planes and other things that will drive away foreign investment for a long time.

it seems that the only way in which Russia holds to international law, is finding more and innovative ways of breaking and/or ignoring those laws as much as possible, the only law the Russians observe when things don't suit their purposes is "the law of the jungle" or we shall do as we please

I'm not at ease with the simplistic idea that higher energy prices = more money for Russia. The pipelines are closed and transporting the products to new markets is now more difficult, complicated, and expensive, and a high Ruble means exports are additionally more expensive. Russia may well still be "in the black" but to suggest the high global commodity price exists within a vacuum is intellectually a little bereft, or at least dishonest

Russia’s history of self-humiliation never seems to end.

Payback for Russia is coming. MLRS, widespread night vision for Ukraine, it's the beginning of a new level of pain for Russia

The real costs are already enormous and are only the beginning. The Russian army currently occupies about 120,000 km² of land in eastern Ukraine, which certainly requires the permanent presence of 150,000 soldiers to be able to hold these areas militarily. Since it was not possible to break up Ukraine as a state, Crimea, for example, has to be supplied with Russian resources (electricity and gas) at great expense and, above all, the maintenance of the vital water supply from Kherson oblast will constantly cost money and blood. The delusional idea of a complete subjugation of the entire Ukraine was, after all, fed by the realisation that a Crimea without the infrastructure of the Ukrainian mainland is nothing more than a better anchorage. It would only have been an efficient naval base allowing fleet operations in the Mediterranean with a cooperative Ukraine. Something, however, that this war has made impossible. A supposed benefit of the conquered territories will not materialise under war conditions anyway. Destruction and displacement simply prevent any reasonable economic development in the Donbass and in the foothills of Crimea, turning them into emergency areas that will permanently require Russian assistance. The "special military operation" has not only led to a complete military overstretching of the Russian army, which has so far presumably lost the offensive power of 25% of all available "battalion tactical combat groups", but as a direct political consequence now even demands a reorientation of the Russian economy. Regardless of whom these political-economic upheavals will hurt more at the moment, especially in the energy sector, in the medium term the loss of "Europe" is a catastrophe for the Russian Federation that is tantamount to a political self-dissolution. Note: The greatest danger to the existence of an empire has always emanated from the even more ingenious ideas of an emperor.

The Ukraine have defended the homeland extremely bravely they have made Russia pay dearly ,if the Ukrainian military had a more modern well armed air force the Russian would have been driven from Ukraine by now . Go hard Ukraine keeping making them pay for invading your homeland your sovereignty.

One thing is to gain land, the other is to maintain and occupy the gain! Russia will find it very difficult to maintain the newly gained territories, and maintain them for what? Russia will have to rebuild everything it has destroyed before it can exploit the resources, and this under heavy fire from the Ukrainian army.

We had 'Vlad the Impaler', now we have 'Vlad the failure'.

Slava Ukraini!

The question no one seems to be asking is, how long can the Russians maintain this offensive before the army collapses?

It is not about how much money Putty is making, its about how he spends it and right now he has no where to spend it. It's really about how much equipment he is loosing and can not replace because he can not spend his money.

"Pооtin the Great Loser" is rapidly sending Muscovy back to 1917.

As an American that has always considered oneself as a patriot, I am ALL IN on Ukraine pushing Russia out . I have had a lifetime of Pootin and am fed up with having lived with his threats and meddling in our business. But I am particularly pleased with the way the 🇬🇧UK is coming out straight on , and fearlessly , against Pootin without the “dances” that others are doing . It seems like we have all always “cowered “ at what Pootin thinks /says. RUSSIA Needs to sit down, shut up and clean up its own house. The only countries that I could give a “wave” for supporting Russia are obviously the ones that are seriously struggling like India , parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia. And there lies an entirely different set of struggles 😢 The US needs to shore up good relations with the rest of the America’s ,, don’t let Pootin get a toe in there.

Nothing like being outed live on tv as being all smoke and mirrors , a relic and for sure their arms sales will take a massive hit

Mister Marcus has given a qualified statement..Thanks

Cynical old man. 1. the fact that other nations ''have waited for years'' is irrelevant at this juncture because those years were peacetime, lazy, status quo years. 2. the opinion of Africa or China or for that matter, India is also irrelevant. This in now an emergency, a battle for the West to avoid Russia's mediaeval feudal ''plans'' for everyone else.

An unintended side effect of the sanctions could be acceleration of reducing the use of fossil fuels in general.

I have been writing on many channels that it is all about the two huge oil and gas reserves discovered decades ago and Russia knows this and LOVES GAS AND OIL. Two in the eastern Ukraine one in the north east, huge oil and gas and one in the southern eastern section about the Donbas and below and a third in western Ukraine. Putin is after the oil and gas fields, which have been drilled by the four largest oil companies long before the 2014 take over of Crimea. Now Russia wants not only the oil and gas, but also has two huge pipelines no one talks about that feed Europe one pipeline in the north and one in the southern part, but controlled by Russia and Ukraine receives money from Russia via an agreement for two or more decades. This is never talked about. Russia must loose this dreadful aggression and be made to pull out over the next year or two. Seems the west even France and Germany may now be getting serious about sending weapons. America is going to make sure Russia is not capable of attacking other western freedom loving countries and so does at least 40+ western and even Asian nations and even Australia and New Zealand and Japan and South Korea are sending weapons and aid to Ukraine. These countries economies are a 100 times larger that Russia's and over time Russia cannot even with India and others like China buying oil and gas make up for the losses and sanctions over the next several years. Does not look good for Russia's future!

This form of broadcast is marvelous. Please continue, thank you.

Dude majorly underestimates the Ukrainian ability to push back Russia in the medium term. Russia is nearing the end point of its offensive capability, Ukraine's will only grow.

I do NOT understand why the US funds the Ukrainian war, but then refuses to use the US and NATO's sea forces to prevent Russian oil tankers transporting their oil to India THROUGH NATO waters. 100 million in revenue for Russia for each Russian oil tanker allowed to pass. Especially in light of the Russian blockade in the Black sea causing grain food shortages! US/NATO needs to have some backbone and put a stop to it.

Well it’s simple, if it isn’t a war there can’t be war crimes. At least I think that’s how their brains work.

If this guy thought about this war and explained it as a flood coming into your yard and your team stopped more damaging water coming over the stacked sand bags plus many more sandbags were being dropped off while the rain slowed down THIS guy wouldn't say the Ukrainian home team is "not winning the war either". Only one team is not winning in this actual dynamic ongoing military (stalled) invasion

2:05 Its really interestung how much parallels Putins war is having with the Crimean war of the 1850s. The reaction of the west is always a surprise for russia in its imperialistical plans.

Look at UK in the spring of 1940, they lost their engagements in Norway, then in Belgium and France, then in Greece, then they had to retreat in North Africa. I feel Zelinsky is doing far better than Churchill. Ukraine now controls over 80 % of its land, an area larger than Germany and Greece combined, they have the support of wealthy industrial allies, who see the danger if Russia should win. Give Ukraine another 6 months.

Russia has just managed to occupy 5 percent of Ukraines Territory since February 24. In Addition to the Territory they already held prior to that since 2014. And that’s after nearly four months of War. Should tell you everything you need to know about Russia and it’s Military Capabilities and also who’s winning this War in the end.

Please don't add that SA doesn't see Russia invading Ukraine as different from the word view. Most of us are horrified and would like to see a nato peacekeeping force kick Russia out of Ukraine.

Let us remember Dunkirk. Britain was exhausted. Right? France was occupied and defeated. Right? Germany was unstoppable. Right? We have no idea where this will go.

Ukraine still needs our help from citizens around the world. Many people I know are donating to Ukraine Army, Come Back Alive, or humanitarian relief there. Anyone can do a quick search online for verified ways to help Ukraine and first thing that comes up is a big list of legit places to donate. Ukraine will win if we can keep help coming to them every day. Also important to contact your government and tell them to keep sending help to Ukraine!

A very interesting talk with Jonathon Marcus. Thank you. Ukraine loses we lose. Well done UK for supporting Ukraine so well.

Russia is not a military super power, it is just a local power. Or even less. I would suggest it is just a kind of big gas station with nuclear weapons.

Great interview and insight into the dreadful WAR that's raging in a sovereign Ukraine

It is also important to point out that when Macro was in Kiev, he repeatedly said " WE will rebuild Ukraine"... I think it is very likely that nobody is too concerned about the infrastructure in Ukraine in the short term. The west rebuilt Japan and Germany after WW2, it is very likely that in 3 years Ukraine will be built much better than it was before the war. Also the USA and EU have seized so much of Russians money already that not only can we buy all the weapons Ukraine needs now, but also rebuild their infrastructure and still have plenty of Russian money left over. We have over 500 billion of Russian money, and the WTO projects it will cost abotu 100 billion to rebuild Ukraine.

Thanks!

My feel is that Ukraine will keep fighting until it has everything back. We went thousands of miles for the Falkland Islands. Why would they be different? *russia lost the war on day four.

Russia needs some pain St Petersburg, Moscow, Ulan Ude, Vladivostok would all be good ones to "catch fire".

Last I heard, Russia had the GDP of Texas. How small is it now?

This interviewer is just repeating things she heard without thinking about any of her questions. Empty shell.

for about 4 months I read about russian losses of equipment, money, soldiers, but I don't see any results. They still attack ukranian cities as nothing happened. Is the information about their losses correct or this is just propaganda to boost moral of ukranian soldiers?

Безопасность Европы и мира в целом это развал Golden Horde (орды 🇷🇺 🌴) ... "Pооtin the Great Loser" is rapidly sending Muscovy back to 1917.

The more important question is "can Ukraine sustane this kind or losses?

Well presented and informed analysis. The Times radio interviewer should google "begs the question "!

The sanctions on Russia are really going bite once they run out if spare parts for their domestic planes, cars, trucks and anything that requires sophisticated microchips. Just imagine what that will do to a country. I'd also contend that any pause in fighting will benefit the Ukrainians. An almost unimaginable amount of weaponry enters the country each day from its western allies. This equipment requires weeks of training for both operation and maintenance. NATO countries spend months training their soldiers to use this stuff. Lastly, these weapons need to be transferred within Ukraine to their eastern front which isn't easy.

Excellent interview. Marcus' analyses have always been on point.

Much humiliation on Putin, he’s lost his face & much of his military after not invading Ukraine.

Times Radio should fix the audio track and repost this video, in its entirety, immediately. There is important information to gain from this, but the audio quality is clearly suffering from all the clipping.

There are western companies still dealing in Russia. Car makers , supermarkets etc etc still trading in Russia as if nothing is happening.

I hope Germany really steps in now, which will save so many lives.

Ukraine has a strategy called "defense in depth" - There is nothing wrong with withdrawals, Ukraine is undefeated and has not been routed... They are not "retreating", they have military forces held in reserve, and brigades on the front lines like the 53rd and 54th Mechanized Brigades are being reinforced with entire battalions with new equipment. Oryx today is showing 78 Russian Battalion Tactical Groups of equipment lost in Ukraine, that is 46% of the total active prewar Russian combat power of 170 BTGs, this is a photo verified count and it is extremely conservative because destroyed equipment in Russian occupied areas are not photographed and submitted to Oryx. 1/3rd of the Russian losses are captures.

openly very good analytics Sir

Interesting interview he is highy informed.

There is a three-month wait to join the Ukrainian army, simply because the army does not have enough trainers to process them. That is the essential difference between the combatants, that Putin is scraping the bottom of the barrel to try to fill his ranks, while Ukraine has a virtually unlimited number of eager volunteers, fighting for their county and their freedom.

What is wrong with Europe? I can tell you for sure my furnace settings would be at the very minimum if I was paying Russia every time my furnace kicked in. I would not be driving anywhere except an extreme emergency if it meant I had to support Putin!

Wow Good commentary

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Russia has created a European Vietnam. A bitterly hostile enemy that is not going away even if they occupy the whole country. This is probably the worst political policy mistake since Hitler's army crossed into Russia.

Would be Wonderfull IF germany actually delivered the weapons it "promised' But sending German weapons to the "Untermensch' clearly isn't going to happen

The mighty Russian bear looks more and more like a cub....

did Russia repeat its '39 Winter war mistake? likely...

I'm not sure the assessment really speaks to Russia's massive problems on the strategic and tactical level. On the strategic level NATO is expanding with Findland and Sweden, it has become much more united, arms and capabilities are being moved forward to the east, and the comitment to increase defense spending in the EU, something the US has complained for years, is underway, and countries like Germany are modifying its entire defense stance. The economic sanctions over time will have a massive affect on Russia. The impact cannot be undestated across so many industries that have now lost access to the West's technology, supply lines and capital. In addition, by the end of the year the purchase of oil by the west will drastically fall off. Other countries either don't have the need or the money to replace the massive consumer markets of the west. These sanctions will first cause the Russian GDP to fall 10 to 15% and there is no ability of Russia to recover. On the tactical level over time Ukraine will get stronger and its equipment and training will improve as it transforms from a Soviet era based peacetime military to a NATO oriented wartime military that is fighting for its own territory. The Russians have made a generational enemy of Ukraine; the people willl not forget and likely be very, slow to forgive. As the military gets stronger the probability that Ukraine will be able to push Russia out of its occupying territories increases. Ukraine will obtain air defenses that will further eliminate Russia's ability to project air power into Ukraine except from inside Russian. Second, as advanced Western artillary and rocket systems come to bear in the longer range and extreme accuracy of these weapons will have a profound impact on Russia's ability to fight. Third, Ukraine's use of Western Naval Anti Ship weapons will significantly change the balance of power in the Black Sea especially in combination with improved Air Defense. Fourth, Russia faces serious problems in replacing its military losses due to the lack of parts and electronics many of them under sanctions. It is trying to replace equipment with very old equipment from the Soviet era that is no match against today's hardware. Fifth, Russia has sufferered major casulties (like Ukraine) but unlike Ukraine is not fighting for their own land so that moral becomes and even larger problem not only in fighting units but with relatives back home how will see a massive number of casulties and they will question is this fight worth so many lives. I believe the longer the war goes on the stronger and more determined Ukraine will become while Russia will become weaker and its resolve will falter.

"News" from Putinstan: (1) we never invaded Ukraine; (2) snow is not cold, and (3) water is not wet.

Totally agree

"I don't think Ukraine will be part of the European Union anytime soon." Really?

The beginning of the end, for this lost regime…

The most important question is: Can Ukraine sustain the losses?

the sound is cracking in all videos from Times Radio lately. pls fix

Russians reminds me of the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail...

Every day some "analyst" is talking thus same trash saying Russia has lost x-number of troops, tanks, whatever, and they can't continue to sustain these losses. Yet every day, inch by inch they're unfortunately taking over Ukraine. You so-called expert analysts know nothing.

I usually dislike when people call something Orwellian, but denying a war and just renaming war to special military operation is pretty much the same thing that the ministry of truth would do in 1984.

We in the West were brought to believe the Bear was a great power to be deeply feared. With the exception of tactical nuclear weapons the bear appears to be toothless. The combined NATO assets could most likely neutralize the entire Russian threat within forty eight hours in Ukraine.

Ukraine needs to cut Russian supply lines as much as possible.

Great analysis and interview. Also, how did they get a supermodel to host?

Moscow's war record :- 1856 defeated by Britain and France 1905 defeated by Japan 1917 defeated by Germany 1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states 1939 defeated by Finland 1969 defeated by China 1989 defeated by Afghanistan 2022 defeated by Ukraine In WW2 it was Stalin's NKVD that won the war : officers who wouldn't advance were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :- a) Hungary 1956 b) Czechoslovakia 1968 c) Moldova 1992 d) Georgia 2008

Why does he not mention the reserves Ukraine holds in its soil apart from the fertile soil on top? Is that not the most obvious reason that Russia wants that territory?

The amount of personnel & equipment lost by Russia is stunning. Reliable estimates from analysts with access to imaging most amateur observers can't get, notwithstanding you-tube & other platform content, indicates Russian losses are approaching unsustainable levels, if not already there. They have lost a minimum of 20,000 troops, but likely closer to 30,000. They've lost 1,000+ tanks, 1,600+ apv/c's of all types, hundreds of fixed & rotary winged aircraft, hundreds of fuel trucks, anti-missile systems, artillery pieces, missile systems (cruise, guided & unguided) & hundreds of other support vehicles. I'm not ex-military, but you can't sustain that rate of loss without becoming combat ineffective eventually. I hope Ukraine can continue their inspiring defence of their homeland.

As a brit' i am disgusted by the half hearted support in terms of equipment by the likes of France and Germany. France you feel, wants to play Russia both ways and Germany seems to be more interested in limiting any damage to its economy that significant cuts in imported russian gas might, in the short term, cause. Germany is the most powerful EU economy and should be stepping up to the plate far more than it is. The EU is hardly any better...what they say and what they do are often totally different things. They and consequently the free world, will live to regret that. It c'ant all be left to the USA, Poland, UK etc.

Lets be aware that if Ukraine and Russian come to a peace treaty after Russian's full annexation of Donbas, Russia will be the one who will have to rebuild all those cities he has destroyed. A very expensive win on Ukraine. Would it have been worth it? What would be the cost on the Russian economy?

As long as Gazprom, natural gas and the Central bank are all exempt from sanctions then Russia will NOT suffer-not the people who need to feel the pinch! Gazprom and Natural Gas exports MUST be sanctioned or it will pretty much be business as usual for Putin!

America had its Vietnam, the USSR had its Afghanistan and now Russia has its Ukraine, looking at the books behind this gentleman I spotted one that says, "Catastrophe", by the time Putin's army pulls out, it will establish another new reputation, how fast Russian Tanks can go.