Putin 'failing' over Ukraine and his problems are mounting, says UK defence chiefVladimir Putin is "failing on all of his military strategic objectives" and "his problems are mounting", the head of Britain's armed forces has said. Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said: "At the very outset, we said that this was a strategic error by President Putin and strategic errors lead to strategic consequences. Putin is failing on all of his military strategic objectives, he wanted to subjugate Ukraine, that's not going to happen. "He wanted to take control of the capital, we saw that that was defeated earlier on. Sir Tony told the BBC: "He's always had a problem in terms of crewing the equipment that he's got.

Source: CNN September 17, 2022 22:33 UTC