Ukraine war: What we’ve learned about modern warfare
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
While the conflict has seen violence, destruction and countless lives lost as wars do, it is a uniquely information-led war. From advances in technology to social media and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s communication tactics.
On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood speaks to Sky's defence and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke as we examine what Russia’s war with Ukraine has taught us about modern warfare.
Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Philly Beaumont – editor
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| 0:00.0 | Ukraine's capital has once again been targeted by Russian drone strikes, |
| 0:08.0 | people waking to the sound of air raid sirens and explosions in the early hours of Wednesday morning. |
| 0:14.0 | Then by dawn, the now familiar rhythm of a clear-up once again resumes. No one was killed in this latest attack, |
| 0:24.1 | but Kiev's residents, like most Ukrainians, become used to living with the now constant threat |
| 0:29.7 | of war. And as we prepare for Christmas, it's likely war in Europe wasn't on many people's |
| 0:36.1 | minds this time last year. |
| 0:38.3 | But here we are. |
| 0:39.9 | Ten months into Europe's first conflict since World War II. |
| 0:44.3 | Just what have we learned about modern day warfare? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Sally Lockwood, and this is the Sky News Daily, |
| 0:51.5 | where I'm joined by Sky's Defence and Security analyst Michael Clark. |
| 0:58.6 | Let's start by talking about the latest attack on Keeve in the early hours of Wednesday morning. |
| 1:04.3 | This is a continuation of what the Russians have made it clear they will do. |
| 1:08.6 | This war is a war against the whole Ukrainian population, |
| 1:13.1 | and they are aiming to put the population under such pressure that the government surrenders. |
| 1:19.6 | Now, I don't think they'll work. That won't work. They won't succeed. But that is now clearly |
| 1:24.0 | articulated as a strategy. This latest attack was the ninth major attack where they use |
| 1:30.0 | up to 100 missiles and drones and then every day there's some attacks, but then about once a |
| 1:35.9 | week, there's a mass attack of the sort that we've seen recently. Certainly the use of drones |
| 1:40.9 | really has changed the backdrop of this war, if you like. They're being used |
| 1:46.3 | on both sides, we should say. The Ukrainians have been using drones for some time, given to them |
| 1:51.0 | by America. And now, of course, we're seeing this use of Iranian drones by Russia. It's really |
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