Ukraine’s incursion expands to Belgorod region | Tom Ball

“It’s a historical moment. It’s a major episode in this war.”
Ukraine is continuing to advance “a kilometer a day” as their operation expands into the Belgorod region, says The Times’s Tom Ball.
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[@josephketterer3246]

This guy should go back to bed.

[@dub604]

Kids always need more sleep than adults do. 😂

[@gregoryedwards1595]

Typical young bloke.

[@VoidAspect]

I think your reporter needs a good night's sleep

[@jojo-pk]

Or 3

[@annedien]

@@jojo-pkand broccoli

[@jojo-pk]

@@annedien broccoli is always good

[@trevormegson7583]

Mmm. Seemed a bit under underwhelmed which made it even more fascinating to watch. Fair play though, we can't all be animated all the time. Good interview nonetheless.

[@EhEhEhEINSTEIN]

I've made it 6 minutes in and idk if I can finish listening to this guy. The "umms" and "ahhs" are brutal

[@justinez6857]

Get this man a coffee before an interview.

[@justin-time5880]

For real, easily one of the worst interviews I've seen

[@dennislindqvist1265]

​@@justin-time5880I saw no problem with the interview. This is how it looks in real life. Everything doesn't have to be so arranged. 😢

[@peterflohr7827]

@@dennislindqvist1265 There's nothing to be arranged. The guy just has put in some effort, at a minimum.

[@thetoolatebucketlist]

Was the reporter forced to do this report without rest?

[@schotscarface18ssf75]

i am thinking he soloing the conflicy reserch and lead chasing himself respect him but yes bro needs a sleep

[@ReallyJustAnotherDay]

This man has a voice for print.

[@roverboat2503]

This might well have been interesting but your reporter is annoying me so much. Get him to do it again when he's awake and then I'll watch it. Goodbye for now.

[@birchstudio2900]

have you slept, man? you look tired and hopeless.

[@ImJiom]

lol why you have to say hopeless also lol

[@birchstudio2900]

@@ImJiom the eyes …. As if sleep will never come . Ever

[@claudiomartinsferreira9644]

Is this guy sleeping?

[@doublehbar]

Can’t take anymore of this interview.

[@youtubeusername2254]

Get this man a coffee

[@lateoreadeltuttoditomcampb6899]

this guy always sounds bored or very tired or depressed or something.

[@txbre8758]

I mean if I had to report on war all the time I’d probably be the same lol

[@Cannon_Fodder_Russians]

After Putin's Kursk disaster. Vlad summons the ghost of Stalin. Stalin. What's happened now? Putin. Nazis have invaded Kursk. My army is destroyed. What should I do? Stalin. Do as I did. Send the Ukrainians to sort it out and beg the Americans for help. Putin. Suka......

[@savaisakovic3857]

This guy is an authoritative source of information?

[@carlosarias4319]

Do not schedule meetings in the morning if you're hitting the town the night before!

[@Slothy_12]

😂

[@SorbusAucubaria]

I sort of wanted to se the faces of soldiers when they were told they were invading Russia.

[@mwtrolle]

Slava Ukraini, from Denmark

[@rayleeson6135]

Erm…erm .erm…i fell asleep..zzzzzz

[@SirDigby3601]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

[@jrabb6019]

The lack of sympathy for the reporter in a war zone is striking. More empathy please.

[@martijnijsendoorn6911]

hard to listen to him jeesus....he needs 3 redbulls man!

[@nickverduyn7723]

This reporter is totally not interested in giving an update. It's like a teenager who is forced to come downstairs to have dinner with his parents and tell them how his day was.

[@youtubeusername2254]

😂😂😂😂

[@julianniemeyer1655]

Another example of high quality Times writing journalists don't necessarily transfer to video very well

[@martinetter2031]

Can't listen to this with an emmm every 2 seconds.

[@philgrazi]

I can't really stand how this guy talks

[@johndewhirst3089]

The lad needs briefing on how to present himself in front of a camera, his general conduct completely detracted from what he had to say. Not the way to encourage respect or engagement. Shame you inconvenienced him.

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

​@composimmonite3918 It's not judgemental, it's facts. Poor guy looked like he was about to pass out from exhaustion.

[@peterflohr7827]

If his poor performance was due to circumstances (lack of sleep or whatever) he should have explained so, and excused, to the listeners. He didn't do that.

[@EKL-qu7ih]

​@@peterflohr7827no he's like this in other interviews

[@kevinferry]

painful to the ear - the 'errrs and mmms' huge distraction

[@judithcampbell1705]

I listened to this interview and was falling asleep because the reporter was falling asleep too. So boring. I won't listen to him anymore. Times Radio should be ashamed of themselves. Disappointed 😞

[@LentonIsokariari-hd6hq]

This guy badly need rest - perhaps sound sleep.

[@skipdreadman8765]

Tom Ball clearly needs a nap. Or he just can't be bothered. What's up with that?

[@SWRural-fk2ub]

Needs to lie down for (24) hours, I think.

[@MurphyKM]

Go Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@chaseschneier1076]

This guy is putting me to sleep. Get a more lively commentator.

[@StephenTSchuler]

Could have cut 8 minutes of this with an alert reporter.

[@knr1958]

Try not to um and arr

[@MattheoBorey]

Wake up, ffs.

[@dendandark]

I'll come back when this guy had a good coffee..

[@Luke-2153]

No offence, but this man was incredibly boring/droning to listen to. Not a great watch to be honest. Disappointed

[@richardmelly2805]

Disappointing. He needs instruction on how to articulate his views clearly.

[@composimmonite3918]

Have you ever considered that you're the one with the problem?

[@Matthew-wn8oq]

Why do you seem so.deflated bro?

[@IusedtohaveausernameIliked]

Um, I'm not sure, um, what I, um, want to say.

[@TulaneAve]

Man, this guy Tom really projects how much he is disinterested in the whole show, just like all the super cool kids. Exactly was journalism needs, more disaffected youth.

[@ashroskell]

This guy just needs a hug. He seems permanently depressed.

[@denisebrown4735]

My Oh my. I couldn't listen to this. Sounds like your reporter has been on a binge.

[@danieleverywhere132]

hate that constant emmmmmm emmmmm go back to school and study journalism

[@solarnaut]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="10">0:10</a> "more than ten THOUSAND people have been evacuated from that region and more than 130 from the Kursk region . . . " presumably that's 130 THOUSAND ?

[@nigelbarker8726]

Actually, there was a lot of good information there.

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

Pokrovsk citizens have been evacuated, talk about the situation in Pokrovsk and when it falls

[@colmmurphy6749]

I want to hear updates about Ukraine but I had to turn this report off because of Tom!

[@khoa2610]

worst speaker ever... show some emotions man.

[@owenconnolly3041]

Silly Toff he is !!!

[@Slothy_12]

😂

[@garywesley7795]

ah umm gets very tiring quickly.

[@11000038]

Ukrainian genius on many levels! Slava Ukraini.

[@vasik9719]

Apologies,Gents - my ADHD doesn't allow to keep watching your presentation.

[@nickpolak6270]

Honestly - is this the best you can do for reportage? Um . .. well . . .I think . . .um . . .well. .. At least hire someone who sounds interested in the subject.

[@c.rutherford]

Certainly a remarkable twist in a war that has been essentially stalemated. If its successful it will probably go down in the military books

[@general-un4gg]

Uhm, mmm, yeah.

[@gatvestreet9248]

This dude is asleep??????

[@sammasati6981]

What a boring guest :(

[@justin-time5880]

This guy is like the worst person to interview. Uhhhh ummmmm *mumbles*

[@owenconnolly3041]

What a Toff !!!

[@samoh77]

Amm, ähh, HE... äh, amm, MAYBE .. amm, amm, .. SHOULD. amm äh and amm JUST WRITE,.. amm äh NOT TALK...

[@jjsams4387]

Is deliberately leaving poisoned food or drink around a war crime? Because they have no idea an enemy soldier will eat it or drink it. What if a Russian child or refugee picks it up?

[@observantperson1848]

Do not be fooled this is a Training video on how not present yourself, not to be coherent, not to be interesting. Basically to prove that certain people are best cut out to write a report and put their name to it at the end.

[@Anu-gn9yn]

Oh no! the hmm, hmmmm, hmmm, guy. Please coach him before you invite him the next time.

[@brettconn3441]

Russia obviously doesn't care about kursk or belgorod.

[@_alienblood]

Its a mater of capabilities Russia are stretched.

[@arcusmc]

Um, um, um. Jesus, man.

[@superAweber]

Commenters! Playback speed is your friend. 1.75 speed makes him wide awake

[@talkCRYPT0]

He looks and sounds like he’s just got out of bed 🤣

[@alainbelisle643]

This guy is partying too much or something.

[@nancyames5437]

IMPOSSIBLE to watch these journalists…. um…um…um…um…um…um…um…um…um…um…um…um…um…um…

[@stevenvencill5162]

He needs to brush his teeth, body and shave. Retired Army 1st. Sgt.

[@fredrikh9299]

Ukraine has pull down the pants on Putin once again. Welcome to NATO soon Ukraine! 🇪🇺❤️🇺🇦

[@faith.chronicles-i3h]

Can you speak up load? What happens to your eyes

[@brianingarfill1773]

To ALL the negative and churlish reports I have just read, not all reporters sit behind desks in offices and plagiarize someone else's reporting, from his exhaustion he has probably been on the go for at least 73 hours non stop to bring the Times radio this AMAZING AND ACCURATE report!!! GIVE THE GUY A BREAK AND READ BETWEEN THE LINES OF HIS REPORTING!!!

[@nancyames5437]

Um?

[@roverboat2503]

No.

[@iwantyourcookiesnow]

Take a 4 hour nap dude

[@wantabite1]

imagine been woken up at 6am told we invading Russia today lol O what feeling that would of been

[@danmorrison740]

Erm erm erm, could this guy talk any slower

[@walter3433]

The morning after a night on the town. Put a decent shirt on

[@terrencekane8203]

Maduro, Putin, and Trump are on their way out. "The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice." --- ML King

[@pardiedanser]

Not sure i've heard one word of this 😅

[@intercat4907]

That photo of Zelensky ... he was a thousand years younger two years ago.

[@NicoSeymore]

i love this

[@Slothy_12]

*Like hey man it was out of sight*

[@marcinchodorowski5443]

Slava Ukraini! ✌

[@Simon-ch7yd]

Never thought I'd end up saying this about a Times radio interview, but..... This was a shockingly POOR interview........guy in white tee shirt utterly bored.......more 'uhm' and 'ands' 'unds' than I've ever heard before. Boring repetitive rubbis!!!

[@composimmonite3918]

This isn't television! Why should he pander to your ideals?

[@davidlynch9049]

He's hungover.🙄

[@anthonyhulse1248]

Buddy needs to a) do a job he cares about; b) respect his audience by having a shower and waking up before he is interviewed; c) prepare what he’s going to say so he’s no humming and hawing, and scratching his scalp.

[@kopeducati]

Battle of Inchon Korea 1950 comes to mind ...

[@BubblegumCrash332]

Coffee needed

[@jimoconnor2594]

Come on, where in Ukraine is your studio

[@SKSK-rz7br]

Starmer has more of a grip on the uk people than Putin ever has

[@Matthew-wn8oq]

FIRE this guy immediately!

[@peterflohr7827]

Or let him stick to writing articles.

[@TheBades1978]

Over use of the sounds ah and um...

[@gnotmardor]

Mr. Sleepy again??

[@peterbws]

Maybe stick to writing mate, too many ums and ehms, cant listen

[@sondo253]

I ermmmm switch off uhhhhh everytime this reporter is on ehhhhh Can't listen to this guy unfortunately. He's got a 30 year careeer ahead of him, he really needs to listen to himself to develop his presenting and delivery

[@simonmorris-p7m]

There’s a man who keeps his head when all about are losing theirs 😎

[@roverboat2503]

Has your reporter just woken up from a stag night? Get him a coffee and some paracetamol someone.

[@davidlynch9049]

The Time's dude in the white shirt needs to sleep it off.😅

[@maartin111]

If you l;ike, kind of thing, Sort of....I am bloody Exhausted

[@Eyrenni]

To every person who thinks this man is a poor speaker; you try staying in a country at war and report on it as well as you can, especially anywhere near where the fighting is going on. If you can't or won't, please sit down and be quiet, or at least acknowledge that you understand why he's sounding so tired and disjointed when you criticise. Your words show a high lack of empathy. To Tom; thank you for your work out there.

[@MattheoBorey]

Sorry, but this behaviour is unprofessional. But he has a great voice.

[@Eyrenni]

@@MattheoBorey If I can have perfectly rested professionals but delayed or outdated information, or a tired person who is professional enough to stay and do their job despite the difficulty and wear and tear to their body, I will respect the latter a lot more than the former. Sometimes you have to choose what to prioritise. The pandemic should have taught everyone who live in a safe country that to some degree.

[@privatename2648]

Um... been a LONG TIME since I've heard anyone speak using THAT MANY, "um's" so it was pretty funny when other guy said UM in his VERY FIRST sentence to Um Tom <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="64">1:04</a>