Poland's military expansion & the truth about British tank shells | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast

Day 391.
Today, we bring you updates from across Ukraine, dispel Russian misinformation on British tank rounds & interview Kyiv Independent Reporter Francis Farrell on his time reporting from the front lines across Ukraine.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Commanding Officer in the British Army's Tank Regiment).
Francis Farrell (Kyiv Independent Reporter). @francisjfarrell on Twitter.
With thanks to Matthew Day. @MatthewWarsaw on Twitter.
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[@SteveEdwards-zl8en]

Brilliant .......especially the Polish assessment who I believe will become crucial in the years to come

[@forsalestuff1036]

It’s neither.

[@paulmccalmont8383]

What that great army super power Poland lol Z

[@johnchapman6013]

What's it got to do with Poland . Unless they are a lapdog to Biden . As UK are lap dog sitting on his senile knee.

[@fishingstevie8830]

​@@paulmccalmont8383Poland and rest of NATO 👍

[@njswampfox474]

It was a negative Nancy comment re Poland's demographics. A 300,000 man army is easily doable and sustainable.

[@American-In-Mykolaiv]

Single best daily analysis available - my perfect diet!

[@alanaustin7011]

Long live Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@philipellis4530]

Not for long my friend.

[@theinternetking2887]

@@philipellis4530 it will when all fascist revisionists are out, my friend!

[@HungryGhost999]

@@philipellis4530 what ?

[@thehusketeers4319]

About another 6 months before its renamed... Ukraine Southern State of Russia

[@aussie137]

This is the best coverage of the conflict that I’ve found

[@vaguerantk8686]

I wasn't too skeptical or particular of my news sources before this large scale conflict. Now I am and The Telegraph has my respect

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

That's because ur not all that smart

[@joforty1437]

ouch... superb and spot on... a pulse truly taken... still cannot equate this honesty with its source newspaper...

[@HungryGhost999]

Agreed 👍

[@kinesjl]

We listen every day, this is the best daily podcast on the subject bar none.

[@TommyTCGT]

Except it's all lies. Try Moon of Alabama, US Col DougMacgregor, or Scott Ritter, or Alex Mercurius.

[@IMSiegfried]

@@TommyTCGT 🤣😂🤣🐑🐑🐑

[@vaultsjan]

Pretty sobering analysis

[@williammorris584]

DU isn’t radioactive to any appreciable degree, and can’t be used to produce any fissile product.

[@femerch1]

I enjoyed listen to Ukraine The Latest

[@johntrinci9445]

British agent Dominic Nicholls at his finest.

[@remindachendirapati5105]

"Depleted" is a typical military euphemism. The uranium is still very radioactive and causes massive birth defects for generations, like it is doing in Iraq. And 'handling' is not the same as the nanoparticles sprayed into the landscape that result at the target. Ukraine is the victim of US geopolitics. The US caused the putsch in 2014, facilitating the persecution of Russians in the Donbas giving Putin the excuse / reason for war. Yes the Russians are only in the Donbas because Stalin put them there, but then that's what invaders often do e.g Hitler's Sudetenland, or Britain's Northern Ireland.

[@chrishooge3442]

T-55 tanks against Leopard, Challenger, or Abrams...I've seen that outcome before and it's completely one-sided. The T-55 employs a 100mm gun that can't penetrate any of the western tanks armor. It doesn't have an autoloader so every time a turret is ejected that's 4 dead Russians. They could be effective against IFVs but will be outmatched in optics and range of ATGMs.

[@remindachendirapati5105]

Yes ... isn't that what Hitler thought about the T34?

[@philipmarwood9327]

Yeah, and who's going to service them. And fuel them. And integrate them into the required battle groups. These things require three hour's servicing for every hour in the field. It takes six months to turn out a basic tanker. And they've used T55 for decades for God's sake.

[@philipmarwood9327]

not used T55 I meant to say

[@jdghgh]

The big take away from today for me in Canada: thousands of innocent Ukrainians are and have been putting their lives on the line for a righteous cause. They are making tremendous sacrifices. We should be prepared to make some as well.

[@dukakisomondi8552]

Very well said. I have watched with dismay as some in the west denigrate the Ukrainians.They are so quick to move on that they blame the Ukrainians for putting up a fight. To them, Ukraine is an inconvenience to their comfortable lives.If Ukraine were properly armed(in numbers and qualities), the fewer they wd have to die. The west shud know that they are in a war with russia(and soon, china) whether they like it or not.They might as well just get on with it, and behave like a people at war.

[@oleksii8182]

At least we know what we're fighting for. What the Russians are telling themselves, if anything, I have no idea.

[@DilbertWhitehead]

Yes. And we may all yet have to do the same to save the free world

[@johnchapman6013]

​@@DilbertWhitehead 🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@DilbertWhitehead]

@@johnchapman6013 ?

[@wesley135]

💙Slava ukraini 💛🇺🇦🇺🇸

[@jimgraham6722]

Spraying uranium, a toxic substance, around the battle field is not such a good idea. Much the same effect can be obtained with tungsten or similar relatively inert substance.

[@Hal-eg6jr]

Depleted uranium is 60 % as radio active as normal uranium. The U N has called for the ban of d u artillery shells as the dust after explosion contaminates the land

[@brianjones8778]

@@evolassunglasses4673 Cancers and birth defects in Iraq are now off the scale. Ask women in Fallujah what they think!

[@mrstalin3241]

Extreme circumstance caused totally by Putin has forced this difficult decision

[@remindachendirapati5105]

Yes, the nanoparticle spalling from the "depleted" Uranium shells used in the Iraq massacres is still causing massive birth defects. Or is that from the illegal white phosphorus the US used. But in the anti-tank shells the kinetic energy is the premium sought. Atomic weight Uranium ~238, Tungsten ~ 184, Lead 207. Hm.

[@paulgibbon5991]

@@remindachendirapati5105 "Whataboutism" is a Soviet-pioneered propaganda technique, whereas cricitisms are not answered directly, but distracted from by pointing out something that somebody else did. Whether the counter-accusation is actually relevant or stands up to criticism is not important, the intent is only to divert the attention of the audience.

[@gabrieldunn7384]

Great show. Thanks ! 🎉

[@attackxxx]

Winnie the pooh met the piglet.

[@helengrunow5094]

Straight out of the Enforcers mouth! Slava Ukraini!

[@obriets]

I sort of feel bad for Belarus. To be a vassal of a vassal must really suck for your national pride.

[@youradventure0710]

Just on the poland front , I agree with the presenter it will be a big call to recruit for such a big army and they already having issues today with the recruitment for their territorial forces . Ta

[@markpavlowski7223]

Well they're running out of Ukrainians, so I guess they'll need the Poles...interesting when the 'contracts tender' goes out for French/German/British body bags.

[@njswampfox474]

It will be easily doable and sustainable. Poland is not as soft as its Western European allies

[@beachdancer]

Your guest has the physics of Uranium a bit wrong. He referred to not being able to create a CHEMICAL reaction with depleted uranium, I think he means a NUCLEAR CHAIN reaction. Uranium does have 92 electrons, but not neutrons. He meant protons, not neutrons. Uranium has between 143 and 146 neutrons. Electricity production uranium is normally enriched to less than 5% not the amount he said.

[@mrstalin3241]

It is all about the risk outcome that matters, decontaminating the environment of all munitions is going to take years.

[@anotheralpha]

Not 18 Himars but 500, but most on Polish track

[@Artdecodec]

Many commercial aircraft use depleted uranium balance weights on flight controls.

[@RightSideNews]

The human cost of war is deeply humbling and what at times drives me to learning more about it. Knowing that another 1000+ people lost a their today and another 1000+ lives will be lost tomorrow (accounting for both sides) gives a true appreciation to simply not be caught up in it or have it in my back yard.

[@themetalfox3725]

I think it’ll take years before we truly understand the human cost to this terrible war

[@justbecauseOK]

All democracies are caught up in this war by default, like it or not.

[@mrstalin3241]

@@themetalfox3725 I totally, totally agree

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Francis Farrell and Roland finally two people capable of communicating facts on the ground ...there must have been 8 commercials in the Farrell part of the show.. I kept listening because his story was real..

[@miyahtallulah]

Brilliant. No BS.

[@r3fl3xion]

❤🇺🇦🙏

[@Chexsum]

fuel = smelting power... they probably done an arms deal

[@johnchapman6013]

Thousands of service men came back from the first gulf war , very ill . Our Tank regiment boys were the first to get symptoms . But as usual the Government cover it up .

[@johnpacey2604]

Time to focus on the Kersh bridge. This will cripple the Russian supply chain.

[@brianfreeman8290]

So, Putler and his amateur army is frightened of the British tank munitions . . . Eff off home then !

[@thehusketeers4319]

Better idea is to destroy them as soon as they arrive

[@charlesworton4020]

Actually, WEDNESDAY the 22nd of march...0:52

[@julianwatts1399]

Wish the British government would stop cutting our army!!! 72000!!!

[@glennstach4439]

I think the word 'breakthrough ' should be eliminated from your repertoire. A breakthrough is when your forces eliminate a defensive force and continue to advance with SUPPORT forces and logistic. Given all the TINY advances of the Russian forces and the losses they suffer after each ' advance ' I would suggest that these are TRAPS not BREAKTHROUGHS ! 👍✌🖖🌻

[@williammorris584]

They are tactical rather than operational breakthroughs. Cracking a trench line or a defensive position centered on a group of buildings is a breakthrough for a company or battalion. It’s just a matter of scale, war isn’t semantics.

[@lucschoesetters4307]

The Challengers are going to blow Russian armor to pieces with the uranium shells. Russians already peeing in their pants before Challengers arrival. Cant wait seeing these super tanks in action. In combined arms warfare these are hot stuff.

[@user-0xDEEDBEEF]

Bear in mind Russians have tank destroyers and also they use tanks for infantry support but not for tank to tank battles.

[@lucschoesetters4307]

@@user-0xDEEDBEEF yes indeed we see how brilliantly they lose their battles. 167000 Kia and???? Wia. 60 %of their thanks lost, real impressive. I wonder what army can do worse, even 300.000 more mobilised troops did'nt improve anything. 2023 will bring them plenty of defeats and hundreds of thousands more innocent people killed both sides.

[@dearmas9068]

​@@user-0xDEEDBEEF everything Russia has is worthless garbage

[@williammorris584]

@@lucschoesetters4307 ATGMs work both ways, and the Ukrainians will find that mines are as effective against their attacks as they have been against those of the Russians. In à counteroffensive Ukraine will attack into the worlds largest artillery park without indirect fire parity or the luxury of using bodies to weight the attack. There’s a terrible hard road ahead. Regime overthrow in Russia is more likely than the prospect of forcibly ejecting Russia from the occupied Donbas and Crimea. Also, those who survive learn. Much of the early carnage was Russia expecting little resistance and attempting to carry out combat tasks with tanks and insufficient infantry. Armies don’t make the same mistakes endlessly; the Russians have corrected their infantry shortage, while Ukraine has much more limited manpower. The war will depend upon Ukraine establishing maneuver warfare since Russia will win a grinding match.

[@user-0xDEEDBEEF]

​@@lucschoesetters4307 HaHa.. mate, I did say that they use their tanks for infantry support didn't I? Javelins there are much more effective than the Challengers. Hence I would not expect a magic flute from the Challengers to battle the Russian tanks.

[@bertoldriesenteil1430]

Why did they call the woman fighting in the ukranian army a "girl" ?

[@nicholaswalker4791]

Are Franc/Germany potentially holding out on national army spending to put forward the idea of an EU army?

[@dearmas9068]

That seems like a very long way off, and not something they should be looking to start working on during an existential threat like the one were facing now.

[@markpavlowski7223]

Probably...but they’ll be needed to 'Police/Enforce' the 'EU Diktats' on the 'Uppity Poles/Hungarians/Slovaks' that refuse to dilute their nations who well remember the 'Ottomans'

[@kentonian]

No

[@hansjorgkunde3772]

There were no Challenger 2 to see until now at the front. Russia was right.

[@williammorris584]

21:00 to 40:30 is frontline first person observation. His observation that Ukraine cannot attack in the same way as the Russians is pointed and accurate: they can’t manage artillery parity, much less superiority, and don’t have the men to mount attritional attacks with infantry. They must somewhere establish operational maneuver for success, and this is problematic . They will at least have suitable equipment; the problem will be assembling sufficient mass.

[@chrishooge3442]

As much as I want to laud the Ukrainians. I'm gobsmacked the Russians have performed so poorly. The Russians are using artillery indiscriminately and without tactical purpose. It's wasteful of ammunition and they don't appear to be able to use artillery to facilitate or support maneuver. It's even worse in the air. I trained against Soviet-era tactics and this doesn't look anything like what I'm familiar with. I suspect they've lost the ability to plan and coordinate above the Battalion level. The sheer number of general officers that have died suggests they don't have effective staffs or subordinate commanders necessitating they put themselves in harm's way to exercise command.

[@mrstalin3241]

@@chrishooge3442 I think their command structure is too vertical to give local autonomy to the people undertaking operational tasks

[@jannarkiewicz633]

Back to over an hour of podcast -- nice. I am not a Trump fan but he was correct when he accused NATO of underspending.

[@IMSiegfried]

like a broken clock even a traitor to his country can be right twice in one lifetime.

[@The_ZeroLine]

I don’t appreciate Slovakia’s contribution very much anymore. They made a profit.

[@dearmas9068]

It's fine. They're a tiny country, and they're agreeing to help. Dont forget the discount only goes so far as the spending they will have to do to train, support, and operate new equipment.

[@The_ZeroLine]

@@dearmas9068 Slovakia has been good. So, I’m not saying they’re not good. Just that it wasn’t like it cost them anything. The package from the US includes all the training too.

[@herx2429]

Frances Farell how depressing listening to him. 🇺🇦🙏🙏🙏

[@markpavlowski7223]

Is it because he can smell the 'coffee'...??...'De Nile' is not only a river in Africa...have a nice day

[@mrstalin3241]

The truth hurts sometimes

[@cenccenc946]

Everyone take a breath. 80+ years later we are still trying to figure out what happened in WWII. We do know pretty much everyone was wrong, from troops on the ground to the Generals at the top; and, the media in a war is almost always wrong about everything by design. Happens in every war.

[@krzysztofsaa2997]

Nope?

[@brianjones8778]

The Telegraph (2009) Ex-soldier died from cancer caused by his exposure to Gulf War Uranium. Sept 10, 2009

[@mrstalin3241]

Hi Brian, it is really difficult to be certain what the cause of cancer is, what I would say is that he is a peace now and obviously not forgotten.

[@richardcowling7381]

Considering how many pills and potions we were dosed up with during Desert Storm because of the perceived risk of chemical attack, and some of the side effects we noted, I'm surprised more of us didn't develop illnesses.

[@bullshttonlyinthesun7560]

funny listening to this 6 months later

[@Edo9River]

IThe stans have already benefitted from the Belt and Road initiative. The stans will look to China first.

[@Critical-Thinker895]

Actually it's Wednesday.

[@considerthis7712]

Utube is released later…

[@Critical-Thinker895]

@@considerthis7712 She stated it was Tuesday March 22. Both can't be right.

[@marctilston2947]

Great podcast, very informative! @ James please either learn to say (nu cle ar) or alternatively define nucular for us. I know it’s nitpicking but drives me nuts.

[@rameezmohammed9677]

49:08 I look in the mirror every day and tell myself the same thing

[@draganjagodic4056]

Croatia? We have given proportionally to our capacities more than many richer and safer countries. We must stay armed, because Serbs both in Serbia and Bosnia haven't given up their lunacy from 1990es.

[@Grundewalt]

I can only observe how the guy interviewes, for every chance or advantage for Ukraine he has a "but" , "quantity beats quality" etc etc. I heard a lot of russian zbloggers commenting like that.

[@PlanetFrosty]

Yuan deal is pointless as more and more African countries are more and more pulling away from China and starting to with Russia.

[@variable7833]

Is this what having a atroke feels pike?

[@Interglacial_optimist]

I've been looking throughout my house for anything that was made in England... All I could find was a picture of the Suez canal...

[@user-0xDEEDBEEF]

FYI Russians do not use rounds with depleted uranium in Ukraine. They use rounds with wolfram carbide.

[@richardcowling7381]

Already seen video of DP rounds in a T-72 captured during the counter offensive.

[@hartley1207]

telegraph or tell a lie

[@user-wy2zv2po6q]

😭☝️💪💪💪🇺🇦👍💙💛❤❤

[@AstraI]

[@YAMIVA]

I take offence! We don't expand militarily! Instead, we want our neighbors to queue up in front of our doors for a sloppy makeout :^) good day everyone

[@niklaswikholm514]

RF targets sivilians on PURPOUS = its either KARMA OR HAAGUE for these criminals

[@thehusketeers4319]

Lies

[@youtubewatcher7570]

We really are the baddies, shooting depleted Uranium all over the place

[@foolishnonsense2511]

Well TBF, as Putin has used both seriously radioactive nuclear weapons (polonium) and nerve gas (novichok) to kill civilians in the UK, whining about the Ukrainian army choosing to use uk-supplied depleted uranium rounds in its own country to defend against the second Russian invasion this century, seems a bit cheeky. Especially given that Russia also fields it’s own DU tank rounds - 3BM59 Svinets-1 and 3BM60 Svinets-2.

[@richardcowling7381]

When Putin ordered his agents to kill a defector with nerve agent in Salisbury, he wasn't too concerned it was spread all over a small county town where the general population could be exposed to it.

[@nowthenzen]

The Quality of Quantity

[@misterborak751]

I’m Polish, and I also wonder: where the hell money comes from. And I might know the answer. It comes from deficit spending, inflation and destruction of currency.

[@JamesBrown-ug2tm]

Money is just a tool to exchange goods with.

[@markpavlowski7223]

Me too…and I'm asking the same.

[@mynewcolour]

Spending 24bn whilst inflation is 18% is spicy. I’d have thought Poland would be a textbook case for a conscription/reservist force model of army.

[@mrstalin3241]

The small price of freedom

[@kentonian]

Nope, gold is useful as plating material for electrical connectors. It has low resistance but good corrosive resistance

[@Kangenpower7]

Ukraine should get a certain amount of natural gas for free from Russia for years after the war ends, as compensation for the damage done, so they can sell that gas and pay for repairs to the buildings and such. Then Ukraine can sell that gas in Europe for 20+ years.

[@Dungshoveleux]

Ukraine used to steal gas crossing their country. How will they force Russia to sell gas to Europe who, they claim, don't need it anymore. China and India will buy anything the Russians produce. How can Russia lose when it has so many nukes?

[@ubigbi]

Agreed. Half a trillion dollars of free gas should nearly cover the rebuild.

[@stevenhughes1812]

They did they use to steal it😂😂😂 .

[@thehusketeers4319]

Losers get nothing

[@ralphhardie7492]

Lots of journalists gossip...all political and buzz words. HEY! 😂Xi is there for 🤑🤑 money, make goodeee deals, Russia is one big fire sale. 😅😅😅

[@bobwinters5572]

It's such a false dichotomy, the peace dividend from the end of the Cold War was not spent on expanded social spending, it was spent on higher wealth and income inequality. It was spent on lower taxes for the well-off. The welfare state of most western countries has not been dramatically expanded since 1991. Thatcherite/Reaganite thinking on welfare states was already well-established by 1991 and it has remained the dominant view of politicians throughout the post-Cold War era (witness Macron's pension "reform" for example). Western welfare state programs have not become more lavish since 1991 and, it can be argued, they've become less permissive. The Cold War militaries were not paid for by bad social programs, the militaries were paid for by taxes (not just on rich people ofc since the lower wealth inequality caused by WW2 meant that the middle income quintiles were relatively quite wealthy).

[@Chris-bb2cb]

Uranium Reserves 1. Australia 2,049,400 2. Kazakhstan 969,200 3. Canada 873,000 4. Russia 661,900 5. Namibia 504,200

[@buddyrojek9417]

Australia gets its electricity from coal because the coal industry pays unemployed delinquents to protest the governments attempts to start a nuclear ☢️ power industry . Welcome to a country run by motorcycle 🏍️ gangs

[@roddixon368]

While there are continued issues between Russia and China, under their current leadership (which are well entrenched) they both have greater flash points with the west. The 'Great Game' is still alive and well with Russia, China and North Korea very active players.

[@hitfirstandhithard1981]

23.03.2023. Another French mercenary was destroyed in Ukraine. For Kevin David, the trip to Ukraine proved to be ‘a one-way ticket’ trip.

[@markpavlowski7223]

How come he has two 'Christian' names...??

[@hitfirstandhithard1981]

@@markpavlowski7223 Is the increase in the European hot & cold water bills, electricity, gas, utilities, food, clothing, entertainment, travelling, eating out etc. is huge? Not, yet? It's alright. This is just the beginning. The western parasites, wanting 'cheap' Russian resources, have been paying an unbearable price for the survival of the illegal Kiev regime, set up by the American politicians (Obama, Biden, Nuland) through the bloody coup and with the US budget money in 2014. Keep up wasting your wealth and health and losing to the Chinese and Asian businesses!

[@charlesduke9750]

Francis' report is really gloomy and sobering. I think we who follow the war and support Ukraine have all been taking down a notch.

[@mrstalin3241]

Frances’s report was so sad, the poor guys fighting for their existence will suffer massive CPTSD when they have won. It is also terrible that Russians will experience the same when they lose but with a realisation that they had been conned. My heart goes out to their nation.

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

Ur not all that smart r u

[@thehusketeers4319]

Russia cannot lose due to unlimited weaponry and manpower. This will be over in 6 months and the vodka will be flowing

[@branscombeR]

Is it my imagination, or has the volume and standard of listener feedback suddenly dropped, in the last few episodes? Conflict fatigue? More effective trollbots? IMHO this episode of 'Ukraine, the Latest' deserves much more informed debate among listeners ... R (Australia)

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Only ten people watch the show and they're the ones that produced it...

[@mrstalin3241]

@@Interglacial_optimist Really? Don’t be stupid

[@olefaustrup2294]

Rhr😅

[@tedzehnder961]

So Generals and other military experts from Ukraine + Western countries are not as smart as this last reporter and his anecdotal facts?It`s true that a lot depends on how Ukrainians use what they have wisely in the coming year.But this reporter seems to be pessimistic to a degree that he sounds more like a Russian blogger.He definitely has no inside information of any planned counter offensive and I would ask him if the Russians are really getting better on how they attack or defend for that matter. I think he thinks they are but where is the evidence?It is true that Russia has Ukraine out gunned at the present time but how does this "reporter" know about the current state of the Russian army? It is true that Ukrainian troops at the front are having a hard time of it in Bakhmut and I think it is a mistake by Ukraine they haven`t repositioned out of the city but I would trust Ukraine`s intelligence services more than this guy`s intelligence.

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Dom should have told Francis that he can't be correct because Russia is out of ammunition..

[@daydays12]

what????

[@Interglacial_optimist]

@@daydays12 Russia's out of ammo they can't be shelling Francis must have been hearing Ukrainian guns shooting all of that ammunition that they have piled up

[@DilbertWhitehead]

Simplistic to say but if it wasn't for Putin and Xi we may still have a chance to save our planet and continue humanity

[@thehusketeers4319]

The biggest war pigs on the planet are USA/NATO. How good would this planet be without them?

[@wilstw]

bunker granpa and pandaman..suit each other..both lossers...

[@dearmas9068]

That's a mirror, little boy

[@Interglacial_optimist]

The Battle of attrition inbox mood is nearly over due to a lack of supply chain. Will Russia allow twenty thousand men to walk out in surrender... Let's hope so.

[@thehusketeers4319]

Russia would Absolutely accept their surrender

[@arthurjohnson7382]

What a depressing sitrep. Is he a Russian plant? He needs to take a course in the power of positive thinking.

[@williammorris584]

Not at the cost of denial, if it’s accurate. It’s also possible that it is one individual’s impression of a limited area; the old tale of three blind men describing an elephant by touching parts of it comes to mind.

[@oleksii8182]

Well, the situation is bad, there's no dancing around it. But these soldiers know what they're fighting for.

[@francisyockey8225]

Because the media narrative is designed to generate support for this war. Pretty much every interview from people who have been on the ground paint a totally different picture than the commentors.

[@mynewcolour]

What a strange reaction to a first-hand account (and the *only* journalist here quoting primary sources he himself has verified - looking his source in the eye). These other guys are largely sat in press rooms with laptops on Twitter 😂

[@user-0xDEEDBEEF]

Quite naive analysis.

[@considerthis7712]

Your opinion is not reiterated by any other comments.

[@user-0xDEEDBEEF]

@@considerthis7712 it says a lot about audience.

[@mynewcolour]

‘Dom’ would be more credible if he didn’t plea against propaganda whilst repeating verbatim MoD press releases. Do journalism please.

[@peterchaloner2877]

How does one sap a monologue? LEARN ENGLISH.

[@martin-xq7te]

Great western propaganda. Keep it up guys

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Your second guest troll mischaracterized Roland's intelligent analysis from the day before because he's jealous. It's kind of fun to watch infighting... I'd hate to hear how Roland would analyze doms propaganda... Maybe that's why Roland doesn't get on the show very much

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Francis did speak quite a bit but he said absolutely nothing of value. Telling us his secret bedtime stories in place of doing reporting on the ground is about par for this rag.

[@krazyswede11]

Wasn't it

[@jimmiesmith5590]

This network spits out false allegations and theoretical theater like someone attempting to piss out chit.

[@devilishdeed]

Ukraine is losing.

[@thehusketeers4319]

Losing badly

[@dearmas9068]

Been waiting for Dom to lose his temper a little about the lies and disinformation from the army of Russian trolls. Was. Not. Disappointed.

[@nemisis4u]

hi neither was i .nice one man

[@johntrinci9445]

😂He lost his temper over the depleted uranium story - it showed he was shaken because he lied non-stop about it trying to deflect and down play. The dust scattered when the round is fired is toxic - look up what happened to Iraqis. He is a bold face liar.

[@Ghatbkk]

@@johntrinci9445 Uranium dust is no more toxic than lead. Going to ask the Russians to stop using lead in their bullets?

[@glennsunman9859]

Evidence of shell rationing is clear , the interval between missile blitzes on civilian infrastructure has lengthened considerably, the number of missiles used in each volley is reduced and we have Prigozhin screaming on record for more shells and complaining about lack of them , so this gentleman’s assertion is unduly pessimistic in view of the evidence. It’s clear that the reporter has been badly affected by his experience (as anyone would be).

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

The Russians hold ukranian territory. Not the other way around dummies. 20 nato countries and the Americans giving money and weapons and ur still no match for the russian shovel.... its really pathetic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@numptybumpty7463]

I heard if Bakhmut and Andriivka fall the whole frontline could collapse.

[@Cloudman572]

What was the source of that?

[@rg-cc5kg]

Do the RuZZians have forces in reserve to make use of a fall?

[@trioguitar]

Yeh, but in which direction?

[@krazyswede11]

😂😂🤡🌍💟 Dom's Ukraine story time 🌠 🤡🌍 o🌈