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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Isbar Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

With the funeral of Queen Elizabeth taking place tomorrow, it is no surprise that warm words and condolences have been filling the airways since her death was announced 10 days ago.

However, amid the tributes, the world has continued to march on and few have marched more relentlessly than the Ukrainian army.

With their recent counter-offensive against Russian occupation proving so successful, Laura Koonberg sat down with Admiral Sotoni Radikin, the chief of the defence staff to discuss their progress.

What's really going on? Can you explain to us what's happened?

I think in many ways we're seeing more of the same.

At the very outset, we said that this was a strategic error by President Putin and strategic errors lead to strategic consequences.

And in this instance, it's strategic failure.

Putin is failing on all of his military strategic objectives.

He wanted to subjugate Ukraine. That's not going to happen.

He wanted to take control of the capital.

We saw that that was defeated earlier on.

We saw that he wanted to weaken NATO. NATO is now much stronger and we have Finland and Sweden joining.

He wanted to break the international resolve. Well, actually that strengthened over this period.

And he's under pressure. His problems are mounting. He's always had a problem in terms of crewing the equipment that he's got.

He hasn't got sufficient manpower. His forces are thin on the ground.

We're also seeing a magnificent Ukrainian armed forces who've been courageous. They're fighting for their country.

And they've embraced the international support that all of us are providing.

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