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2025-12-20

One of the very few things that we can actually assert with reasonable confidence is that very few people have a well-informed grasp of what is actually going on in the Ukraine.

We do our best to seek them out, but ... we are not there either.

So here is another view by a former commander of British forces in various theatres of conflict.

It's a bit different in the detail from the views of our other preferred sources, but he strikes me as probably as close as any to the actual reality, whatever that may be.