Trigger warning. This episode contains descriptions of brutal violence and war crimes.

His position in Russia is that Russia is fighting for its own survival against NATO,

and he's using that as the method to keep his people under control.

There was all this support, yeah, go liberate Ukraine.

And then there's these bloke sitting and watch, they're going, oh, fuck, this could be me now.

This could be me, yeah.

They may be ignorant, they may be brainwashed.

They're not completely stupid.

They realize they're going to fight in that war where there's body bags coming back every day.

Statistically speaking, they're going to be in one of those body banks.

And those 300,000, I guarantee, will just get fed into a me grind, but they won't last two minutes.

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The situation in Ukraine is something that we're all painfully aware of,

but how much do we really understand about the reality on the ground?

My mate Richard Sharp has spent the last seven months in the war zone and has had

first-hand experience of the horrors and devastation caused by the Russian invaders.

Whilst people were fleeing the country, sharply jumped in his van and drove toward the front line.

As a former Royal Commando, he shares his views on the conflict, thoughts on where the war

is heading,

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