New army chief: Russia to lose 1m men in Ukraine advance

Walker, who is a former director of special forces and survived a Taliban bomb blast when he served in Afghanistan, said the war in Ukraine was “not going well for anyone”. He added that Moscow must fail or else a wider security framework that protects the Nato alliance — the true target of Putin’s aggression — would be at risk. “It has just started in Ukraine, so it must fail in Ukraine, otherwise where does it go next?” he told the audience at the conference hosted by the Royal United Services Institute.