Could Ukraine be winning the war against Russia?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to military analyst and former Air Vice-Marshall Sean Bell about how Ukrainian forces have managed to regain an area of land reported to be equivalent to half of Wales, and talks to Sky News’ Moscow correspondent, Diana Magnay, about the impact the retreat is having on President Putin’s hold on power.
Editors - Philly Beaumont & Paul Stanworth
Producers - Rosie Gillott & Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Digital producer - David Chipakupaku
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| 1:01.6 | Something quite remarkable is happening in Ukraine. |
| 1:07.7 | More than 6,000 square kilometres of territory in the Harkeve region |
| 1:11.6 | held by embattled Russian conscripts, now retaken by an emboldened Ukrainian military. |
| 1:18.6 | Through a combination of guile, deception, military might bolstered by Western weaponry and technology. President Zelensky |
| 1:29.5 | has delivered defeat to Russia, and no doubt a headache or two for Vladimir Putin into the bargain. |
| 1:39.4 | For this was no orderly Russian withdrawal, no staged strategic regrouping, |
| 1:45.5 | intelligence instead suggesting that Putin's forces turned tail and fled, |
| 1:51.0 | literally running for their lives. So much Ukrainian blood now stains the country's soil that |
| 1:57.8 | any victory will be hailed as a rout, a vanquishing of the hated foe. |
| 2:02.9 | But does Kharkiv suggest that the bloody tide is turning, that this is a war that Ukraine can win? |
| 2:12.3 | I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
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