Welcome to the world in 10 in an increasingly uncertain world.
This is the Times daily podcast dedicated to global security today with me,
Tom Noonan and Laura Cook.
The German Defence Minister Boris Pistoria seemed to summarise the international mood well when he said attacks on civilian infrastructure in the first night after this supposedly pivotal and great phone call have not abated.
Putin is playing a game here.
Halting attacks on energy and civilian infrastructure for 30 days was the outcome of his conversation with Donald Trump.
Our guest today is Hamish Debrettin Gordon,
a former commanding Officer of the UK and NATO's Chemical and Nuclear Defence Forces,
and now a defense commentator.
Hamish, it looks like there have been further attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure overnight.
Now, to all the world,
that looks like an immediate violation of what he'd agreed with Donald Trump yet yesterday.
If Putin is playing a game here, how risky is that kind of move?
Well, I think, certainly I am not, not at all surprised by what's happened over the last 24 hours.
In my opinion, you know,
the last thing on Putin's mind at the moment is any sort of ceasefire or peace deal.
You know, he, he thinks he's winning and he is advancing on all fronts it in Ukraine.
So this much vaunted talk between Trump and Putin and of course,
lest we forget that Trump has said that he would sort the war out in 24 hours and the last 24 hours,
if that's anything to go by.