Luke Harding
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first heard Nov 2024
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Today in Focus · Is the tide turning for Ukraine in war with Russia? – The Latest · 23 Apr 2026
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Lucy, what you have to understand is that war has changed.
I mean, forget the Second World War movies you've seen of brave soldiers kind of running across fields and things like that.
I mean, the Russians still do that, but with very little success because practically they're all killed and injured.
And this has become a kind of superlative aerial contest, both sides using drones massively, a kind of race of technology.
And I think one other really interesting development is that
My sense is the Ukrainians have got an edge at the moment.
And what I mean by that is that they've been really whacking Russian ports, oil infrastructure, terminals.
And Russia is a big country and its air defenses are very stretched.
The Ukrainians using both sort of ballistic missiles and long-range drones are finding a way through.
So we've seen burning terminals in the last few weeks.
And also, I think, a strategy of victory, which is that essentially I was talking to someone today who was saying that the goal is to basically cripple Russia's economy so it can no longer finance its war.
The analogy is with Germany in the First World War, he was saying.
In other words, you know, there were never any kind of allied troops on German territory, but Germany basically collapsed.
And what Ukraine is trying to do is to make Russia collapse economically.
So it's got no oil, it can no longer fund its war.
And that is a path they think to victory.
Well, I mean, I think you're right.
I think that the consequences have been mixed, as you say, with oil now up to $100 a barrel and the Trump administration bizarrely lifting its kind of sanctions against Russian seaborne oil, which is already out there, that the Russians are seeing a windfall of many billions of dollars.
But on the other hand, as we were just discussing, that their oil export infrastructure is being smashed by Ukrainian drones.
So, yes, more money, but they have to export this stuff.
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