{"id":1250323,"date":"2025-11-10T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1250323"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:05:45","slug":"glen-grant-putin-s-army-is-bleeding-but-the-west-still-doesn-t-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/glen-grant-putin-s-army-is-bleeding-but-the-west-still-doesn-t-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Grant: \u201cPutin\u2019s Army Is Bleeding, But the West Still Doesn\u2019t Get It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, former British Army Lieutenant Colonel Glen Grant<\/strong> joins us to analyze the brutal reality of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine and the West’s indecisive response. We will explain why Russia’s \u201chuman wave\u201d tactics are still working, why Tomahawk missiles alone are not enough to change the course of the war, and how Ukraine must rethink its defense to survive. We will also examine the dangers of secret backchannel ceasefire negotiations and the weakness of Western leadership in its actions and responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more details from the\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0between UATV English<\/a> host Henry Keen and\u00a0a former British Army Lieutenant Colonel Glen Grant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Ukrainian forces report more than a thousand Russian soldiers every single day. The Kremlin couldn\u2019t kill us off, of course, not only because it\u2019s the Kremlin and it never did, but also because it does not change anything, right? A thousand, ten thousand for them \u2014 slowly, knee high in blood. But are Russians gaining ground or not? And is it Ukrainians maybe who are gaining ground? What\u2019s going on there?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 It\u2019s a very difficult situation because actually both sides are intertwined, so you almost can\u2019t say who\u2019s gaining ground and who isn\u2019t. The Russians are still pouring people forward. You say we\u2019re killing a thousand soldiers a day, and still they come. But they made the decision two years ago that this is the way to fight \u2014 go back to the old ways of the Russian front and just pile men upon men upon men and work your way through. And they\u2019ve been quite successful at it, and it\u2019s going to remain successful. Even if we manage to hold the line, there may be a pause and there may even be a pause of PR, but I doubt it. I think they\u2019re just going to keep the pressure on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 That\u2019s maybe a topic of a separate conversation because too many questions rise immediately after I hear answers like that from experts. But let\u2019s slide smoothly to weapons. The American weapons \u2014 the US and NATO are sending more weapons now, discussing supply of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Is that what Ukraine really needs now? Tomahawk makes sense?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 There\u2019s no question that any long-range weapons will help the strategic battle. Absolutely. Whether the strategic battle is capable of changing the paradigm is still open to question. There is no doubt \u2014 absolutely no doubt \u2014 that there are a lot of Russians that are now unhappy because they can\u2019t get their fuel and they can\u2019t do what they want to do with their businesses, with lorry transport and stuff like this. So it is causing problems in the system. And I saw the video of youngsters chanting \u201cget rid of Putin\u201d in St. Petersburg. My concern is that they\u2019re not chanting that because they want the West to be okay. They\u2019re chanting that because they want the new leader to win the war. We still haven\u2019t broken that paradigm of Russians saying, \u201cThis is a stupid thing to do, we shouldn\u2019t be fighting.\u201d That worries me because Tomahawk, I don\u2019t think, is going to do that. It\u2019s not going to have that effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The front line is the only way we\u2019re going to win this war \u2014 to be sure of it \u2014 to make sure that we have enough soldiers on the front line and that they are properly equipped. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Not just equipped by volunteers, not just equipped by constant begging from people all over the world to give us another car and everything else, but just concentrating on what the boys on the front line need and giving it to them so that they can fight offensively, not just defensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 But the West is still too cautious \u2014 that\u2019s what you\u2019re saying? Slow and political actions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 I think the West is cautious, and I also think that the linkage between the front line and the donors is still too fractured \u2014 going through the logistics, the General Staff, the Ministry of Defense. I don\u2019t think the two are as coherent as they need to be. That also brings its own problems for the West, because then when the West is not totally committed to something, it doesn\u2019t feel sure. I\u2019ve heard the British and I\u2019ve heard from other countries as well: \u201cWe\u2019re giving what we\u2019re asked to give.\u201d They\u2019re only delivering what they\u2019re asked to deliver. They\u2019re not delivering in some cases what they could deliver because they\u2019re not asked to deliver that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 That is a line that I\u2019ve heard. Ukraine is not asking from the West what Ukraine needs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 In some ways. If we asked the Japanese for two, three thousand cars \u2014 Toyota pickups \u2014 fair enough. And yet people are bringing cars from America, shipping them from America for the front line. Latvia has just sent \u2014 I can\u2019t remember exactly how many, 150, something like that \u2014 to the front line. Other countries are doing it. Every day they\u2019re asking for cars, which is something simple but absolutely fundamental. You can\u2019t replenish yourself, you can\u2019t go and buy batteries without a car to drive back and pick them up at the garage 30\u201340 kilometers back. These are fundamentals \u2014 part of the logistic system of an organized army. When you take that away, you\u2019ve got soldiers wasting time to do things they shouldn\u2019t have to do. You\u2019ve got officers wasting time worrying about \u201cwhere do we get this, where do we get that,\u201d when those things should be supplied. Start with the cars. That will make a big difference to people. Ambulances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 We hear that constantly. I\u2019m not sure why it has not been done before, because this is a brilliant idea \u2014 to ask on a governmental level the Japanese to send not new, just used big cars.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Easy. I don\u2019t think that would be a very big problem for them. But I would just add this one thing: we\u2019re looking for the silver bullet. We\u2019ve been looking for the silver bullet since the beginning of the war. \u201cWe need this, we need F-16, we need this.\u201d None of those silver bullets will actually change the paradigm. The only thing that will change the paradigm is the soldier. The man on the ground is actually the person \u2014 the thing \u2014 that will change things. And unless we enable those by training, by proper equipment for each individual, we will not go forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Putin threatens the world again with nuclear escalation. This time the world just laughs at it openly \u2014 the reaction. You think?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Very difficult to say, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to use nuclear weapons because I think this is one step beyond \u2014 unless he\u2019s got a suicide feeling in his own head, \u201cI\u2019m going to go down in a blaze of glory,\u201d which is entirely possible. But I do think that the majority of his troops and the people around him would try to stop him because none of them want to go down in a blaze of glory. Don\u2019t forget Lavrov\u2019s got a house in the West, family in the West. So have many of the others. Most of the oligarchs have got houses and family in the West. They\u2019re not going to want to lose all that just for this strange little dwarf in a bunker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 I have two questions in one. Do you believe Putin will ever be held accountable for what he\u2019s done? And will Western leaders have enough political will to actually launch and finish that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Two questions in one, isn\u2019t it? The first question \u2014 do I believe he\u2019ll be held accountable? No, because I think he\u2019ll be killed by someone before he reaches that stage. Western leaders \u2014 most of them are so weak, aren\u2019t they? This is the weakest bunch of men and women in power that the world has seen for thousands of years. Every one of them, 100\u2013200 years ago, would have had their country taken over because they\u2019re so lacking in spine. Germans are beginning to show a bit of fight, and I see that the AfD \u2014 a couple of them \u2014 are heading off to Russia to talk to Putin, so even Germany\u2019s got internal problems. But I hope that even if Putin gets killed at the final curtain, we manage to put Lavrov, Gerasimov and a few others into The Hague and at least make some people suffer for a long time. And those people on television who constantly talk about killing \u2014 let\u2019s see a few of those in The Hague for 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 If Putin escapes accountability, how do you think China, Iran, North Korea will interpret such a signal? Can they unite and destroy the West?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 I\u2019m not sure they can unite to destroy, nor do I think that China wants to. China wants to buy and maneuver its way with small steps, because the Chinese look at long term. Why would you destroy things in a war if you don\u2019t need to? Better to build a few more islands in the South Sea, take a bit more, and think about what you\u2019re going to do over the next 300\u2013400 years, because that\u2019s the way the Chinese mind works. I don\u2019t see them coming together to do something unless it was so critical that they had no choice. Each of them knows there\u2019s a chance that if they do that, it\u2019s going to destroy themselves. They\u2019re survivors. They\u2019re not megalomaniac in the way Hitler was. Putin is, but the others aren\u2019t. They just want to destroy and damage and watch us break, using a different paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Trump\u2019s words about \u201cprogress towards peace,\u201d hinting that peace is possible through negotiations, perhaps even through an agreement between Ukraine and Russia \u2014 is that illusions, delusions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 It\u2019s deluded. What worries me at the moment with the president\u2019s administration in Ukraine is that they seem to be heading for elections or working towards elections, and if they are, then it means they\u2019ve already made some sort of thought or agreement of a ceasefire, some sort of early peace agreement. But that doesn\u2019t take into account the population, and I\u2019m not sure that Ukraine as a whole is happy about that. Maybe they are, maybe we are here, but I\u2019m definitely not sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Do you believe these negotiations \u2014 Trump with Putin \u2014 are likely to happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 I think they\u2019re going on all the time. Every day they\u2019re talking. Don\u2019t think that they\u2019re not. My suspicion is the president\u2019s administration is also talking all the time to someone, back door into Russia. I would not be surprised if things suddenly folded and we agreed. But it would take some sort of reinforcement of any agreement to be very obvious and clear. Anything except America is a joke. The rest of Europe still hasn\u2019t got itself to a level where it could guarantee any support to Ukraine at all. Ukraine has got 150 brigades on the front line, and Europe can\u2019t put 150 brigades on the front line. They can\u2019t even replace the front line even if they want to. It would have to be US and US power \u2014 real power and all the firepower and all the enablers that the US has got. And Trump is not going to do that. He\u2019s not going to put it there. He said that, and we all know he loves Putin. He would like to see some sort of agreement and then Putin take another big slice of the country. His team have even been endorsing that. The risk for Ukraine of people going around the back door behind them is very high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Is it that they are powerless because there\u2019s not the choice, or is there no power?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 I think it\u2019s political choice in their own countries \u2014 holding on to power and holding on to what they\u2019ve got. And I think it\u2019s crass ignorance that they just really don\u2019t understand what this is all about. You can see it because the words that come out from them \u2014 there are not enough strong words on a daily basis, except from Germany. The rest of them are not talking in the right way. Macron comes up with idea after idea, but these are uncosted, unsupported ideas that he produces \u2014 he just throws them out every now and again to try and make him seem as though he knows what he\u2019s doing, but he doesn\u2019t. And Starmer in the UK is overwhelmed by the fact that his government is failing badly, so he hasn\u2019t got the time or energy to put to a Ukraine war. He just has to leave it to his defense minister and not give him any more money. We\u2019re left with what \u2014 Finland and Estonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 It\u2019s just I don\u2019t know what is more dangerous for Ukraine: losing Pokrovsk \u2014 which is not that crucial \u2014 or to wake up in the morning and say we already have an agreement and people just don\u2019t know about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Agreement is the most dangerous. There\u2019s no question in my mind. Not facing up to the reality of a real war \u2014 which still the president\u2019s administration are not doing \u2014 and not actually facing up to how we win this war. If they did, things would change quite quickly. If they started replacing second-rate people with first-rate people, started removing generals that are not competent and bringing back half the people they\u2019ve sacked and put in reserve who are competent, stopped worrying about politics and worried about winning the war \u2014 then they\u2019d actually win the politics. That\u2019s the ironic part of it: if Zelenskyy wants another term, he needs to win, not to play politics. And he wins another term by doing what he doesn\u2019t want to do: bring the best people back, win the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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