🇺🇦 Inside Russia’s Eastern Offensive

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It's been three months since Russia invaded Ukraine, but with Putin now focusing on the east of the country after his failure to take Kyiv, where is the war currently? Dr Mike Martin, a former British Army officer and author of Why We Fight, comes back on the show to tell Arthur Snell about the brutal battle for the Donbas, and where the conflict could head next. We're putting out irregular war bulletins covering different aspects of the Ukraine crisis. Thank you for backing us on Patreon, we really appreciate your support. Resources to help the Ukrainian people can be found here: https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/ “The Russians are trying to take the whole of the Donbas under their control.” “Many of the same mistakes the Russians made in Kyiv are being made in the Donbas.” “Russian morale is appalling, and Ukrainian morale is sky high.” “I’ve lost count as to how many Russian generals have been killed.” “The Russians cannot reinforce their naval presence in the Black Sea as Turkey has closed off the Bosporus.” “Were Russia to use a nuclear weapon, the NATO powers wouldn’t allow that to pass without a response.” "Russia have de-escalated. They were talking about regime change and de-nazification, now they're talking about getting the Donbass under Russian control.” "Russian leaders don't tend to survive when they lose wars.” DOOMSDAY WATCH was written and presented by Arthur Snell, and produced by Robin Leeburn with Jacob Archbold. Theme tune and original music by Paul Hartnoll. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. DOOMSDAY WATCH is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Arthur Snell. A major war is taking place on the European continent with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
0:09.0	Bringing you a series of special episodes to help you understand the crisis as it unfolds. This is Doomsday Watch.
0:22.0	Welcome back to another Doomsday Watch War Bulletin.
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0:54.0	Here at Doomsday Watch, we tend to focus on the geopolitical level as we try to explain this conflict in Ukraine.
1:00.0	However, we want to give you a deep dive into the military situation in the ground and to do that.
1:05.0	Back today by popular demand, we've got Mike Martin, military strategist, writer and expert on all matters relating to warfare. Mike, welcome.
1:16.0	I'm good, Mike. Last time we spoke, we were talking about the Russians' attempts to take Kiev.
1:24.0	We were in a very different phase of this war. Now, that bit of the Russians campaign has failed utterly and they're focusing their efforts in the east of Ukraine.
1:35.0	So, update the listeners. Where are we at with this war now?
1:40.0	There was actually a phase in between that, actually, from when they were focusing on Kiev to focusing on the east.
1:45.0	They went a couple of, for a few days, they were saying they were going to stitch up the whole of the southern coastline of Ukraine as well and join Donbass to trans-Nestra, but that plan failed as well.
1:56.0	So, where are we? Well, the Russians are trying to take the whole of the Donbass under their control.
2:05.0	So, the listeners will remember in 2014, they sort of took some chunks out of that.
2:09.0	Or rather, these local separatist militias, which are basically kind of local thugs that are supplied by Russia, took large bits of the Donbass.
2:18.0	But what they want to do this time is take the whole of the two oblasts, which are like provinces that Lehansk and Donets oblasts.
2:26.0	They want to bring all of those under Russian control.
2:29.0	And one assumes there'll be some sort of annexation, although we're part of Russia or whatever, a bit like what happened with Crimea in 2014.
2:39.0	So, to achieve that, they pulled all of their forces out of Kiev.
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