✍️"I was a Cold War soldier for 12 years," Goodwin writes.
"And not a desk jockey either: foot-slogging infantry"
"Any army is only as good as its individual soldiers.
"The British Army has learnt this lesson multiple times in its illustrious history. Look after your soldiers and they will fight well"
"This lesson does not appear to have been learnt by the Russians"
❓What do we see in Ukraine, Goodwin questions.
"Not just Russian troops who don’t know where they are, or even where they are going, but worse, troops who have been misled by their officers as to their mission"
Which brings Goodwin to another vital issue: morale.
"The sight of Russian troops raiding shops for food or even begging for it can only mean rock bottom morale," he writes
"When you have been lied to by your officers, I can only think that you won’t believe anyone cares about your welfare – a recipe for doubt, defiance and desertion"
🔎Read Professor James Goodwin’s full analysis here 👇
🔴Russian military commanders as well as people at the very top of the Russian government will be held to account for any war crimes in Ukraine, Britain's armed forces minister has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴The Polish Border Guard said on Thursday that 1.43 million people have entered Poland from Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚨Britain is set to send the world’s most advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Ukraine, the Defence Secretary has announced.
Designed to destroy fighter jets and helicopters, Starstreak is the fastest short-range surface-to-air missile developed 🧵👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/0…
🔴Ben Wallace on Wednesday told MPs he is looking at providing the Starstreak High-Velocity Missile systems to the Ukrainians, stepping up the UK’s military assistance to Kyiv
➡️The missile uses three dart-like projectiles allowing multiple hits on the target.
It can be fired from the shoulder, from a lightweight multiple launcher or from armoured vehicles
Hopes are growing that the mobilisation of Russian mothers unwilling to watch their sons dispatched to their deaths could alter the course of this terrible war
🇷🇺It is no coincidence that yesterday, on International Women’s Day, Putin directly addressed the mothers of soldiers
🔴The Ministry of Defence has said service personnel are banned from travelling to Ukraine amid reports British soldiers have gone absent without leave to fight Russia.
🔴5,000 residents fled the besieged city of Sumy yesterday, the Ukrainian government has announced, with the humanitarian corridor to stay open today telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴760 visas have been granted so far for Ukrainians to come to the UK, Cabinet minister Grant Shapps has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…