#Ukraine: Lord Michael Ashcroft reports the futility of the counter offensive, 75 meters at a time. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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#Ukraine: Lord Michael Ashcroft reports the futility of the counter offensive, 75 meters at a time. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.lordashcroft.com/2023/09/on-the-front-line-with-the-drone-war-warriors/
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| 0:25.0 | This is CBSI and the world I'm John Batchewith. |
| 0:27.2 | My colleague and friend Gregory Coppoli, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, |
| 0:31.9 | a report from Lord Michael Ashcroft, who is a journalist and a poster, |
| 0:36.6 | very well-respected former Tory Conservative MP, but now with his fourth trip to Ukraine, |
| 0:44.2 | writes up a report in great detail about what risks he took in order to give us these details, |
| 0:50.8 | and in reading the report of the offensive, the counteroffensive, which comes down to small |
| 0:56.0 | teams crawling to a rubble, going up against Russian small teams crawling to a rubble, |
| 1:01.5 | both sides watching each other with drones overhead, calling in suicide drones or artillery rounds, |
| 1:08.1 | in the rubble. Gregory, I grew increasingly discouraged that there can be any resolution in what |
| 1:14.7 | appears to be just massacre on both sides. The casualty rates are said to be high. |
| 1:21.9 | I don't know that they can have an accurate count, 70,000 dead for Ukraine. |
| 1:26.2 | That's what Lord Ashcroft tells us, 140,000 wounded. He doesn't give us a number on the Russian side, |
| 1:32.4 | but I come back to what we witnessed in through his eyes. There's no way, Gregory, |
| 1:38.7 | this could lead to a breakthrough or a cracking of the Russian lines. This is like Stalin |
| 1:45.3 | grad Jr. of Verdun Jr. How did you read this? |
| 1:49.3 | Well, yes, I mean, I think he very clearly portrayed this as a World War One Western front |
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