Ukraine Struggles to Scale Offensive Combat Operations
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymying Ukraine's counteroffensive, and the broader challenges the Ukrainian military has with scaling offensive operations. To listen to part 2 of this episode, as well as a series of conversations about the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the Russian military, sign up today to become a member of War on The Rocks.
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| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. My name is Errenstein and today we have a special sneak preview of the Russian |
| 0:19.3 | contingency with Mike Kaufman. |
| 0:20.7 | Where Mike sat down with Rob Lee in a two-part episode, first of which you can listen to for free, |
| 0:26.5 | where they reflect on their recent research trip to Ukraine, where they visited the front |
| 0:31.1 | lines, interviewed Ukrainian soldiers, |
| 0:33.7 | and met with people all throughout Ukraine to understand the ongoing offensive. |
| 0:37.6 | To listen to part two, take advantage of our special promo |
| 0:42.0 | celebrating War on the Rocks's 10 year anniversary |
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| 0:59.6 | welcome back to another episode of the Russia Continuously |
| 1:02.0 | I'm sitting here with Rob Lee. |
| 1:04.4 | We are recording a special episode after recently completing a trip to Ukraine. |
| 1:10.7 | We had another fuel study. We were near the front line, both in the south |
| 1:16.0 | and the eastern part of the country had a lot of interesting discussions, |
| 1:20.0 | meetings with those from the Ukrainian military at different levels. |
| 1:26.0 | Obviously we won't be discussing or disclosing some of the details and nuances, |
| 1:31.0 | but we'll be offering our impressions and then later on I intend to follow up |
| 1:35.2 | with our other colleagues Conrad Musica and Franz Stephan Gadik who are also on the |
| 1:40.8 | trip with us to get their impressions. |
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