Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

“Witkoff plays right into it … The idea that you’ve been spun by the Kremlin I don’t know how many times is at the top of your list?”

Witkoff and Kushner’s visit to Moscow was openly mocked by the Russians, who called their meeting with Putin “diplomacy of the doomed”, says Professor Scott Lucas.
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“Where is the secretary of state, Mr Rubio? … He is absolutely AWOL.”

Witkoff and Kushner’s visit to Kyiv was “hard to watch” after they sucked up to Putin during their previous meeting in Moscow, says Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.
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“Putin's pursuing his own delirious ideas... first he invented history, now he’s inventing biology,”

A total consensus is forming across Russia that Putin has gone completely mad, as an exploding economy pushes the country to the edge with zero political mechanisms to remove him, says journalist Anna Zafesova.

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“The Russians have had a miscellaneous ‘F’ failure there.”

Ukrainian firepower and drone control over logistical lines of communication have put 2,500 Russian troops in a “world of hurt” on the Kinburn Spit and around the Fortress Belt, says former British Army Major General Chip Chapman.
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He was once Russia's richest man. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was thrown in jail for urging democratic change in Russia and since getting out and leaving Russia more than a decade ago, he has continued the fight.

He says he was hopeful for nearly imminent change in Russia before the war started, but now thinks it will be a good 20 years before we see that "Happy Russia of the Future" Alexei Navalny always dreamed about. And Khodorkovsky believes Ukraine has ALREADY won the war.

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