Armed Forces Chief Sir Tony Radakin Says Putin ‘Has Already Lost The War In Ukraine’ [Video]

Chief of Armed Forces Sir Tony Radakin said: Putin has “already lost the war in Ukraine” and says speculation he could be assassinated is “wishful thinking” – as he warns that Russia is still “the biggest threat” the UK faces.

Britain’s chief of defense staff said the Ukrainian military “absolutely” believes it will win the war in the face of a “struggling” Russia that has “lost more than 30 percent of its strike power on land”.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said: BBC One’s Sunday Morning shows Ukraine plans to restore ‘the whole territory’.

He said 50,000 Russian soldiers killed or injured in the conflict destroyed nearly 1,700 Russian tanks, in addition to nearly 4,000 armored fighting vehicles belonging to Russia.

“What you see is a Russia, if we focus on the Donbas, which is less than 10 percent of Ukraine’s territory and we are approaching 150 days,” he told the BBC.

“Russia is struggling to take that area, and it is struggling because of the courage and determination of the Ukrainian armed forces.”

He dismissed speculation that the Russian president is “out of order” or could be assassinated as “wishful thinking”, after being asked whether Vladimir Putin could be “overthrown” or undergo a “regime change”.

“As military professionals, we see a relatively stable regime in Russia,” he said.

“President Putin has managed to crush every opposition, we see a hierarchy invested in President Putin and so no one at the top has the motivation to challenge President Putin, and that is bleak.”

Admiral Sir Radakin said that when the Kremlin started the war, it wanted to take the cities of Ukraine within the first 30 days.

“Russia had the ambition to cause rifts and put pressure on NATO,” he explained.

“This is Russia as a challenge to the world order, Russia is failing in all those ambitions. Russia is a smaller nation than at the beginning of February.’

Despite this, Admiral Sir Radakin has said the next prime minister should know that Russia is “the biggest threat” facing the UK.

“The land forces are probably less of a threat in the short term because of that degradation, that exhaustion that we see with their struggle in Ukraine,” he said.

“But Russia remains a nuclear power, it has cyber capabilities, it has space capabilities and it has certain programs underwater so it can threaten the underwater cables that allow the world’s information to travel around the world.”

He added that the next prime minister will be briefed on the war in Ukraine and reminded of the “extraordinary responsibility they have with the UK as a nuclear power”.

“We will always brief them on the current situation so that they know where we have our forces,” he said.

“It is dominated by Ukraine and the support we give to Ukraine, but we are also trying to step back and present a broader threat picture.

“And then we have to remind the Prime Minister of the extraordinary responsibility they have with the UK as a nuclear power, and that’s part of the initiation for a new British Prime Minister and that’s going to be the focus.”

When asked what Britain’s armed forces would look like if defense spending rose to three per cent of GDP, he added: “I think they would be even more modern and have even more clout and even more impact.” all over the world, and that is clearly a choice for the government.’

It comes as Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu ordered the so-called shock and awe attacks Ukraine yesterday.

He claimed that the Kremlin’s armed forces have denied the possibility of the Kiev regime that has carried out massive rocket and artillery attacks on civilian infrastructure and residents of the Donbas and other regions,” reports in Moscow said.

It followed an on-site inspection by: Putin‘s loyal defense minister – and a meeting of the National Security Council led by Vladimir Putin.

Shoigu’ gave instructions to the actions of [military] groups in all operational areas,” local reports said.

It was unclear whether the minister’s talks with military leaders took place in Russia or in occupied Ukraine.

Shoigu’s foreboding threat came as more details emerged about the tragic victims of Thursday’s sickening Russian attack on the western Ukraine town of Vinnytsya.

The death toll now stands at 24.

Photos showed a seven-year-old boy whose remains could only be identified by his DNA after he was hit by one of Putin’s missiles while attending a doctor’s appointment.

Maxim Zharyi died along with his mother Victoria Rekuta, 35, a licensed dentist, in the shocking attack on a city hundreds of miles from the Eastern Front.

The couple had been to the Neuromed clinic, which was hit by a missile fired from a Russian warship in the Black Sea.

Ksenia Denisyuk, Victoria’s friend, said: ‘He was a child prodigy, smart and kind.

‘They went to a clinic together.

‘This was the moment when the terrorist country’ [Russia] go to the medical center.

‘Max could only be identified with a DNA test.

“The whole world should know that Russia is a terrorist state.”

Another boy, Kirill Pyakhin, eight, died in the rocket attack as he waited with his uncle in a parked car while his grandmother went to get money from a nearby bank.

This was the same attack that killed little Liza Dmitrieva, four, in her stroller, leaving her mother Irina, 33, seriously injured.

Alina Kisel, 35, was also killed when a tree fell as a result of the rocket attack.

She was in the backyard of the bank where she worked and died instantly.

Four other bank employees were hospitalized.

Meanwhile, Shoigu awarded the Gold Star Hero of the Russia medals to Colonel General Alexander Lapin and Major General Esedulla Abachev.

A 70-year-old woman was one of three victims of an air raid on Chuhuiv near Kharkov.

A regional police official said Russia fired four rockets from near the western city of Belgorod around 3:30 a.m.

The strike damaged a two-storey residential building, a school and a shop, Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Synehubov said.

Ukraine’s shortened and straightened defense line to the east has successfully repulsed Russian attacks, according to the British Ministry of Defense.

The intelligence service’s daily update this morning said the “Ukrainian defense has been successful in repelling Russian attacks since Lysychansk was ceded and the Ukrainian defense line was shortened and straightened.”

It added: “This has enabled the concentration of force and firing against reduced Russian attacks and has helped to reduce Russia’s momentum.”