5 June 2026
“Seeing the isolation of Crimea and making it untenable is underway.”
The Kursk bridge has been “damaged enough” by Ukraine meaning that the Russians are using the Crimean bridge as their major supply line, says Lieutenant General Ben Hodges who explains how it can be “easily hit” by Zelensky’s drones.
This interview was recorded at 1200BST Thursday 04.06.2026.
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Commenter Graham Reeve replied to my comment on the DT. (“Andrew Tate’s bizarre trip …”
My comment first :
“Garry Kasparov is one of the few Russians who can rightfully hold their head high. He’s right about almost everything. He said this yesterday :
“Ukraine is capable of targeting Russian civilians the way Russia does. In fact, Russia can reserve more of its air defenses for military and energy targets because Ukraine doesn’t do so. Murdering innocents is a choice Russia makes every day.”
Graham :
Indeed. We really should listen to him– like a fortune-teller, this is a quote from him from back in 2015:
“Ukraine is just one battle the free world would like to ignore in a larger war it refuses to acknowledge even exists. But pretending you don’t have enemies does not make it true. The Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union are gone, but the enemies of freedom who built them are not. History does not end; it runs in cycles. The failure to defend Ukraine today is the failure of the Allies to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938. The world must act now so that Poland in 2015 will not be called on to play the role of Poland in 1939.”
No one listened to Garry 11 years ago and they are still not listening now.
All so true.