Facing widespread criticism from veterans, the government has tasked high-ranking members of the services to 'interact' with retired officers to 'convince' them about the advantages of the recruitment programme.
wo one of things you wrote towards the end of your piece, hit is refreshing to hear that because i think there is been a lot of talk over the past years that people looking at authoritarian system as if they have some great advantage over democracy. yes, there is no question, anderson. the emergence of cyber tools and facial recognition tools and social networks and drones. they seem to make it more efficient and they seem to make democracy more governable. what we saw putin, he beats up a bunch of army in syria, georgia a
army, this will mark the source of the federation as a force of evil. the war of ukraine entered a new phrase only they refused to use the word calling it a war. another stage of this operation is beginning. i am sure this will be an important moment of this entire special operation. well, it certainly is an important moment. he s not wrong about that. it is important to understand the reality of this moment. these moments were captured in ukrainian s second largest city kha kharkiv, in a residential neighborhood, people were dead. these moments come to us from reuters. again, another residential neighborhood in kharkiv and again human beings, neighbors, friends, and mothers and fathers dead lying in the street from russian bombardment. it is another example one aid to
georgia - they never faced western army with weapons. he was able to do that in aleppo and elsewhere because there were not enough. there were some very, very brave reporters who were there covering and photographers but the world was not watching closely day after day. the citizens did not have cell phone cameras they were uploading and we were not seeing these flood of i mages from thoe places. exactly, it was another restraining force on him and ukraine that didn t exist in these other theaters. he had a system basically that was up against a weak system in all of these wars of the last decade. he thought the same thing was going to happen in ukraine. instead he triggered a war with a strong system that s ukrainian highly motivated. trained for a decade now and that was some of the most sophisticated weapons but also training on those weapons and operated in small groups against
but it is there. they suffer from intense headaches, nausea and dizziness. he suffers from concussions twice. not all wound bleeds. ben wedeman at the hospital here at the front lines. i want to bring in our former u.s. defense, former commender of europe, general hurley. general hurley, you have been accessing the army and as this war enters a new phase, focusing on the donbas region, how do you think is going to change and do you think they have, is russia