The Ukraine War Ep. 2: Invasion

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Telling the history of a war that’s reshaping the world. In Ep.2: Russia thought they’d take Kyiv in three days. Instead Putin’s invasion has gone down as one of the most infamous fiascos in military history – while Ukraine’s courage and fighting skill has stunned the world. How did Putin get it so wrong? And how did Zelenskyy’s defiance transform the conflict? Arthur Snell talks to military analysts and historians to unearth the truth about the pivotal first weeks of the war: catastrophe for Russia, glory for Ukraine. Behind the cruelty and monstrous waste a strange question emerges: Did a dysfunctional, shambolic Russia really intend to invade Ukraine at all? Hear next week’s edition of Doomsday Watch: The Ukraine War immediately when you support the podcast on Patreon: http://www.doomsdaywatch.co.uk “How did one of the world’s great military powers manage to make such a mess of things?” – Arthur Snell “The Russians didn’t bring much military equipment. What they did bring was parade uniforms to march through Kyiv when it was all over.” – Peter Caddick-Addams “The Russian FSB spent vast sums of money preparing for the collapse of the Ukrainian Government, which they confidently expected…” – Arthur Snell “ Putin is a very 19th-century figure. He believes that Russia has a birthright to be a great power.“ – Mark Galeotti “The experience of any Russian who lived through the 1990s is that reality can disappear around you at any time. People learned to negotiate chaos.“– Peter Pomerantsev “The central Russian experience is the Great Patriotic War… They think their moral right to dictate to others comes from 1945.” – Jade McGlynn Photograph courtesy Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto Incidental music in order of appearance: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony Number 5 performed by Jason Weinberger and the WCF Symphony Gustav Mahler’s Symphony Number 9 (First Movement) performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra ‘Thy Resurrection’ performed by the Music of Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery ‘The Blessed I Have Already Chosen’ by Maksym Berezovsky, performed by Kyiv Chamber Choir Written and presented by Arthur Snell. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. 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	February the 24th 2022, a date none of us will ever forget.
0:21.3	At a certain moment the debate became irrelevant, perhaps you always thought Putin was going
0:27.3	to invade. Perhaps you were sure he wouldn't. Perhaps you thought he had been bluffing,
0:33.7	but then he felt he had to go through with it to show that he wasn't.
0:38.8	At 0500 Eastern European Standard Time on the 24th of February, the only thing that mattered
0:45.7	was that Russia had launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin had announced
0:52.5	a special military operation a couple of hours earlier on Russian State TV.
1:01.0	Within minutes, the first explosions were being heard in key and in other major cities.
1:05.9	Videos showed Russian troops crossing the border in the north, south and east of the country.
1:11.3	The White House press conference briefed reports that key for fallen days may be less.
1:18.9	The only question would be how long it would take and how much death and destruction
1:24.0	would be in its path.
1:28.4	I'm Arthur Snell. This is Doomsday Watch, the Ukraine War, Episode 2 invasion.
1:48.9	Let's go to the shelters.
2:12.8	Let's go to the shelters.
2:18.8	Explorers can be heard very closely in the area.
2:23.1	So arguably the conflict locked in from the 22nd of February when the Russians recognized
2:30.8	Lohansk and Donetsk as independent territories and started to move troops, their own troops
2:36.6	over the border to protect those areas, actually, of course, to fix Ukrainian positions on the line of contact.
2:42.8	Dr. Jack Watling works for the Royal United Services Institute and is an expert on modern warfare.
2:48.8	That built into the evening of the 24th when a massive air in the South Strike campaign
2:55.8	started, electronic warfare, knocking out radar, decoy drones flying into, saturate
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