Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff, said Vladimir Putin was failing his military-strategic objectives in Ukraine, in a BBC interview on September 18, 2022.
Radakin argued that Russia had failed to seize Kyiv or subjugate Ukraine, while efforts to weaken NATO and fracture international support had backfired. He cited Finland and Sweden's moves towards NATO membership; neither had yet completed accession at that time.
He said Russian forces faced manpower problems and praised Ukrainian troops' courage and use of international support. Those statements were his military assessment of the situation.
Radakin nevertheless cautioned that the war was likely to continue for a long time. Recent Ukrainian gains in the northeast, he said, did not automatically mean easy victories elsewhere or establish that Putin's domestic power base was collapsing.
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