Americans try to help Ukraine any way we can and our government does nothing. I’m so frustrated I wanna cry. 😡😭

Just wait until the general public learns how many died for so little

It took Russia 20 minutes to blame Ukraine without evidence ( despite Isis live streaming the attack) It took Russian authorities 90 minutes to get to the concert hall , despite being within walking distance of it.

It is really was ‘Life of Brian’ish’ with Putin saying “it was Ukraine, it was Ukraine ” and ISIS saying “no, hang on it was us!, it was us!!!!”

Thank you for this excellent analysis by Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones. I like that he doesn't try to out-think the Ukraine military leaders and gives them credit for fighting as they know how to do it. I also feel it is wrong for Western military people to project their expectations onto Ukraine in this devastating war. We need to continue giving them what they need and let them get on with their heroic efforts without pressures and criticism from the West. These only encourage Putin.

What happened in this Crocus hall? - If someone somewhere in Moscow or St. Petersburg shows a blank sheet of paper, fully armed and armored "policemen" will be there within 30-90 seconds and capture the person and drag them into waiting vehicles. - Crocus Hall: There are hundreds of surveillance cameras around and inside the building. - There is a larger police station in the building itself. - There is a “special police” station about 2 km away from the hall. - In the building there is a sprinkler system that runs on water and there is a system with halon gas; i.e. two different fire extinguishing systems. So what happened? The terrorists appear in a vehicle and park. They get out with large automatic weapons in their hands. they walk completely calmly to the entrance and into the building. The people sitting in front of the surveillance camera screens could have raised the alarm - in addition to automatic danger detection systems. WHY didn't this happen? As a reminder - someone lifts a white sheet of paper - then it only takes seconds until someone is there....... . Was the entire surveillance staff on vacation at the time of a major event? Were the automatic surveillance systems switched off during a major event? Then the "police station" IN THE building - was the staff there also on vacation? Then the police station is about two km away - the emergency services could walk to the Crocushalle in 20 minutes, by car in 5 minutes - why did it take over an hour until the first police officers were on site? The pictures that exist of what happened - the terrorists don't give the impression that they are in a hurry, as if they knew that they had enough time. They move completely freely in large parts of the building and shoot people. they have enough time to start a fire. Not only that, they must have either known exactly WHERE to set the fire in order for it to spread or they knew that BOTH extinguishing systems would NOT work. Afterwards they still have enough time to leave the building undisturbed. Only someone who knows exactly that there will be no resistance acts like this Personally, I believe that it was a terrorist attack by an IS group, but I also believe that Putin knew it exactly and that he let it happen on purpose in order to then use it to his advantage. Isn't anyone in Russia asking themselves how this could happen when it usually only takes seconds for someone to be arrested with a blank sheet of paper?

A country at war with itself

Just one American here. My leadership (if you can call them that) needs to shut up and sit down! Ukraine needs to double down on targeting the Ork's oil production!

"all the armor we have given them"... We have given them left overs and crumbs, a zoo of different types in small numbers, requiring even different tool sizes and lubricants. Everybody who witnessed these "NATO-doctrine" combined arms exercises towards the end of the Cold War knows, that these "huge strikes" have been based on 5 times the numbers, including superior air power, on a front line of half the length of the one in Ukraine and a "theater" in only one direction, not surrounded by 300°-s. That 2023 spring offensive according "NATO-standards" anyway never could have worked. Militaries insisting on this and blaming Ukrainian command up to there occurring a re-shuffle are terrifyingly irresponsible and displaced.

Ukraine cannot fight a war with promises.

Ruppert, you are a hero and said it so succinctly and with the nuance lacking in so much analysis. Grateful the population has access to the experience, wisdom and foresight you bring to this diabolically cruel and complex situation. Thank you, and thank you James for the excellent line of questioning that allowed Rupert to cover off so many critical insights that so often get under explored by interviewers. Well done, cracking team!!

General Rupert has a great way of giving information

The FSB is very sh it.

Insanity in russian state hitting new records...

Russia received very in depth briefings about the extremely high IS terrorist threat level from some very well established domestic Intelligence Services prior to this event

narcissists put the blame on others

The tight focus on Ukraine has stripped down russia's military presence and support elsewher, particularly in Syria and Africa. This has allowed IS-K to recover and scale up. Wagner used to be active there, but that has gone leaving only the feeble russian regular army. Putin has it coming.

Not once did i hear the word ..'peace'...how many years will it go on....the arms manufacturers must be rubbing their hands with glee !!!!

Thank you James, you always find the best guests.

Strange with paranoic desease. Peter the great died 52 years old but was very paranoic and tortured his own son until he was dead because he belived the son planned to take over the crown.

As an American I’m wholly embarrassed by the ridiculous demands of my inept, incompetent and impotent government in regard to Ukraine striking Russian oil/gas facilities. The hypocrisy of our government is staggering. We have to sit here and watch Russia destroy the Ukraine and commit genocide, whilst our government sits idle with much needed money/weapons sitting idle in warehouses. Trillions spent in the Middle East on senseless, directionless war however, we can’t help a nation defend itself against the tyranny of a psychopathic dictator whose delusions are tearing the world apart. I’ve never been more embarrassed to be an American, in my nearly five decade existence on this earth.

Putin is almost like a comedy act that can’t make people laugh! Maybe him and Lukashenko should get together and call themselves Dumb and Dumber!

For Putin as a former KGB officer it must be unbearable that the US is better informed about terrorist risks within Russia than RU itself. Plus the fact that security police responded way too late. His almost fatalistic obsession with Ukraine can't really conceal his ineffectiveness here.

The idea that Ukraine could have, or should have, fight like a NATO army is insane. NATO manual, chapter 1, Establish Air Supremacy. It wasn't mentioned, but the fact that Ukraine has yet to receive any aircraft is nothing less than disgusting. Before you tell me it takes time, I already know that. But we were a year and a half into the war before the US agreed to allow even training to start. Far worse than that, Biden prevented Poland from turning over a bunch of MiGs very early in the war because they had some NATO technical upgrades. The US has still not given any long range missiles other than some ATACAMs cluster munitions. And Germany steadfastly refuses to send any TAURUS missiles.

Thank you, Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones from Ukraine!

Excellent, forthright analysis. Thank you.

And the big delay allowed Russia to form up massive defensives that tanks could not go through, right?

Is there anyone capable to talk over in Putin’s circle. Hasn’t he insured there are absolutely none?

I think Ukraine’s allies were critical of how Ukraine was fighting because we didn’t supply them with what was needed to really do combined arms, the spring offensive didn’t go well, and the US and others wanted to deflect blame for not sending needed aircraft, etc.

13:45 -- The clumsy pressure from the United States to stop destroying energy infrastructure had actually turned out to be Russian disinfo

Seems that putin's done in either scenario!!

Putin is a charismatic leader who will manage to transform Russia from a "regional power" into a "fail state"....

Excellent discussion! Thank you! 🇺🇦✌️

Agree..thank you

Good interview. 👍👍👍 If it wasn't an inside job, this attack comes as a gift to Putler. I assume that they themselves were already aware of the impending attack and were angry that the Americans made this public. Every system has difficulties in mobilization unless there is an external enemy. Most Russians are well aware that Russia is attacking Ukraine and not the other way around, so enthusiasm for mobilization against Ukraine is rather limited. This is different with another external enemy, who could possibly be linked to Ukraine. This alone explains the slow response of the security services. It just came in handy for them. This is not the first time that Russia has been involved in such and other false flag operations against its own population. They will continue to inflate and intensify the attack, and the security services' response will quietly disappear from the narrative.

Excellent points

The Polish Foreign Minster, Radek Sikorski made a great speech in his accurate assessment of the Ukraine war, as he exposed the lies and false propaganda by Putin and the Kremlin regime.

Has Lukashenko thrown Putin under the bus ?

I like how he pronounces Putin"s name. Like a putrid smell.

I am loving all these interviews with these Generals. They are interesting and they know a lot. I don't think we would know half of them if it wasn't for this war. I really appreciate these interviews and giving the Generals time to respond with detail. Thank you.

General Jones always great value....

regime change for russia

This guy is so much better at analysis than the other Brit appeasers who are frequently interviewed on this channel and advocate for Ukraine to give up Crimea and the other territory occupied by Russia in exchange for a "peace agreement." Of course, they ignore that Russia has never lived up to any agreement, especially concerning Ukraine.

That's a good remark. Putin is humiliating his intelligence services with this whole thing. First, before the attack, not believing it was an actual warning (despite the Russian intelligence probably would believe it was genuine), and then by trying to blame Ukraine (despite the people in Russian intelligence know that's not true). This might be humiliating for them, and they might see that, besides that, what Putin is doing is very damaging to Russia and Russians. After all, many citizens died, and the attitude of Putin makes it easier for a new massacre to happen again, due to not taking ISIS seriously, and treating the Russian intelligence professionals as little kids.

Slava Ukraini! 💙💛

SLAVA UKRAYINI !🔱💙💛✌😊

Russian people will believe what Putin tells them to. I'm under the impression that the ability to think for oneself is something that does not exist in that country any more.

Then again, maybe he let it happen on purpose allowing him to blame it on ukraine. He is that kind of person.

Russia was once a Gas Station with Nukes but is becoming a Gas Station without Gas.

As a former KGB officer, it must be frustrating for Putin to see the US more informed about terrorist threats within Russia than Russia itself. Additionally, the delayed response of the security police only adds to the issue. His intense focus on Ukraine does little to hide his ineffectiveness in these matters.

The speaker makes great sense. Thank to you both!

Remember Putin is KGB/FSB. ✌️

UKRAINE has no choice really - yes, they are committed completely to defending their country.... supplies have been delayed and the instability of constant missiles is wearing us all down but they 'are' invincible! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦👏👏

there is video circulating that FSB was behind the Crocus City Hall attacked

Slava Ukraini!

Putin thought this war would only take 5-10 days to win .

Never forget that FSB explosed civilians buildings in Moscow to provoke tchetchnia war

What's the point of training combined arms, then not providing "the arms" air cover etc?

Who are these guys in Blues in the room, very quiet, who sits, who give orders, who film and who are found after arresting one of the terrorists in the forest?? Who are these "eschniks"?

3 Days to Kyiv...

He mentions the expectation we'd had that Ukraine's 2023 offensive would have been more dramatic with the tanks Ukraine had gotten. He concentrates a lot of the fact that the Ukrainians still have a lot of the Russian-style doctrine that they haven't shaken off. But Perun also mentioned the mines, which are far more concentrated than than standard doctrine. The west was slow to give Ukraine what it needed, and it gave Russia time to really dig in and build all then entrenchments and these ridiculously dense minefields. I don't see how that was a doctrinal problem on Ukraine's part, but maybe there's an element of that too...

Why dont you talk about the guys dressed in blue, in the bleachers, filming the initial shooting, one of them identified, a known FSB agent, signaling to other similar clothed guys also filming and talking on cell phones, looks like they are in on it some how! ! Is this real???

Icelandics & Jamaicans use the appropriate moniker for Putler. To them he is Rassputin🤣

Putin and his gang know exactly who did this, but it has happened and he may as well make the most of it, but they must be asking themselves why they are so inept. And is there someone in the military thinking what idiots , maybe something should be done.

He is evil and at the same time- completely incompetent

Rich with slackhead russbots comments

Excellent guest and interview, thank you.

there are lot of questions to be answered in regards to the recent Moscow atrocity! the warning given to Putin two weeks ago weren't even looked into undercover; this really does display a belligerence in the face of common sense . if for instance Putin was attending the theatre its pretty certain there would have been a heavy security presence but none was apparent even in a small degree to the point the terrorists walked around nonchalantly prior to the event ...the capture of the cell was surprisingly quick! so the capacity was there but not active ;this leads one to feel that there was a false sense of security and no fear of risk attached to a public event,this could have been a momentous miscalculation if Putin had wandered into this situation by chance as could have happened.

They will all fall in line with Putin or will fall out of a window.

Would somebody be generally better off without Putin ?

Thank you 💛 Rupert for your excellent 💛 analysis

What about the warthog report showing probable fsb agents at the concert making sure the doors are closed and later at the arrest scene? Is that genuine footage?

What's with the men in blue, sitting filming it and texting each other? Ordering people to close the doors.

The only conspiracy here is how easily the suspects were caught and apprehended and how little they were 'paid' to carry it out

Fabulous stuff. Insights and common sense. We should keep our noses out from time to time.

These episodes of Frontline are some of the best interviews covering Ukraine. Fish & chis on me.

The Russian dude showed video of the guys in the auditorium during the attack arresting the suspects afterwards… All dressed in bright blue. Sprinkler system turned off Security service headquarters 5 min away too 70 minutes to respond.😂😂😂

Kursk: 118 dead Crocus: 143 dead Kursk: Russian Navy fails to realise accident has occurred for 6 hours despite two large underwater explosions and lack of contact from sub Crocus: takes authorities between 30 and 90 minutes to respond to active shooter event in large, well-known, concert venue. Kursk: Putin denies offers of help from NATO members for 5 days, only accepts on 6th day Crocus: Putin dismisses foreign intelligence warnings that Islamist mass casualty attacks may be imminent Kursk: Russia blames collision with phantom NATO submarine for disaster rather than admit Russian corruption and incompetence Crocus: Putin blames US, UK, Ukraine for atrocity rather than admit Russian ineptitude and intelligence failings Do you see a pattern here?

Thanks, another informative and interesting interview, keep up the good work!

Heard all this before, no one will take Putin out within his circle.

I think we should think of the outcomes of anyone taking down Putin if that ever happens. What are the options, what would be the implications and the power struggles that will start as a consequence?. If Putin falls and there is a power vacuum Russia probably risks civil war or at the very least balkanization

Do Russian people know what Lukashenko said- was it in state TV?

Excellent discussion. Please do more with Gen. Jones 👍

I'm in the new business and I love James Hanson's interviews for Times Radio.

There was also a GPS located speed camera photo locating them on the way to Belarus. ISIS K have now also released a new threat that they will attack Moscow again for the torture of their operatives.

Keep hoping Times, it ain't gonna happen !

Good interview, thank you.

He has a right to say what he thinks after what happened just like any other country have

If he wants to blame the attack on Ukraine, then the narrative can be argued, that the shooting won't be called a terrorist attack, and the blame becomes squarely placed on his shoulders, for not keeping the Russian civilian population safe, from the country he attacked.

I thought Trump ran against Hillary? Did I miss something 😂

The media deserves distrust.they don't even deny it anymore.

Much more perceptive and understanding chat from Jones than from Ingram, especially re. Syrskyi and his profile, and the inappropriate military advice and pressure from some parts of the West.

There is a lot of guesswork - only time will show what will happen.

Good balanced analysis. If only the Ukrainians were really supported Russia and putin would have been put to sleep last year.

Great report

Brilliant analysis.

Interviewer ...your questions sound very faint...could you turn up your mic please? Rupert Jones is fine.

Russia blamed Ukraine within 20 minutes, despite lacking evidence and despite ISIS live-streaming the attack. Meanwhile, it took Russian authorities 90 minutes to reach the concert hall, even though it was within walking distance.

Times inner circle cracked already!

Reminds me of that saying 'Never let a good crisis go to waste'. For Putin it's a great opportunity to blame Ukraine whether it's true or not.