Oliver Carroll

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160 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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And right now, people are trying to extract every bit of life, however difficult.

But the pendulum will swing back.

And if there isn't a ceasefire deal by the winter, which I think is the default assumption.

You have to be fairly apprehensive about what might ensue.

Thank you, Rosie.

Things have not looked this good for Ukraine.

For some time.

A bitter winter has now given way to a story of momentum.

But as Saturday's mass strike on Kyiv showed

Russia still remains a brutal adversary.

The question still for Ukraine is how long its strategic reserve, its people and its resources.

can sustain the battle.

And even if it can

What kind of country can survive?

The news from the front line is very promising.

Ukraine is basically now inflicting casualties on Russia.

At rates faster than Russia is replacing.

To give you an example, training for the at most elite assault units is now down to basically ten days.

Usually it would be several months.

Ukraine reckons fifty thousand is the absolute ceiling of Russia's training capacity.

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