https://minutesof.com/on/ukraine/ Everyone on the record about Ukraine: 19 verbatim quotes from 3 people, March 2022 to January 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:19 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/e28bfd64-dbbc-4a27-8370-387096f572c9/ https://minutesof.com/q/e28bfd64-dbbc-4a27-8370-387096f572c9/ “Look. There are precedents for this, which is the DMZ between North And South Korea, but that's, you know, an internationally evacuated ban between the two countries, and that's not you know, it's been there for years, but we're nowhere near that situation in terms of doing a deal with Russia over Ukraine.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, TalkTV Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:15:01 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/75ba1d05-f4c4-464c-a24e-4d746b3b5a09/ https://minutesof.com/q/75ba1d05-f4c4-464c-a24e-4d746b3b5a09/ “And the idea that you're gonna have, you know, 30,000 it would take 200 to 300,000 troops to please the ceasefire line. Look.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, TalkTV Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:15:01 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/6a2c1921-3cee-46fa-81a7-228a5cbceda8/ https://minutesof.com/q/6a2c1921-3cee-46fa-81a7-228a5cbceda8/ “Trump did cut it off briefly at one point for eight days, and that is when the Kharkiv Salient Yeah. Was basically regained by the Russians.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/90bb0513-3ba7-4d7a-b0e6-09eaa1685ac4/ https://minutesof.com/q/90bb0513-3ba7-4d7a-b0e6-09eaa1685ac4/ “the idea that a sovereign nation should agree because of the threat from another nation that its army shouldn't be bigger than a certain size is also of profound difficulty for Ukraine.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/f37d5478-699e-4ff0-a674-a220fc6ee934/ https://minutesof.com/q/f37d5478-699e-4ff0-a674-a220fc6ee934/ “I think the only practical security guarantee personally is a guarantee of air cover because the Ukrainians will not accept, I think, boots on the ground and neither will the Russians.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/bf6877f8-f186-498a-b36d-641a08a9dab2/ https://minutesof.com/q/bf6877f8-f186-498a-b36d-641a08a9dab2/ “what the Russians want is a Manchurian candidate who does not appear to be a Manchurian candidate at all, who looks like a loyal Ukrainian, but after the election, will make the concessions that Zelensky may not have made or probably won't have made already.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/d67bdf1f-66c5-4386-a619-9d51f15bc4bc/ https://minutesof.com/q/d67bdf1f-66c5-4386-a619-9d51f15bc4bc/ “the we reckon the Russian figures now are one point one, 1,200,000. I don't know what the fatalities are within that figure, over two hundred thousand probably, maybe even more than that.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/f0945d8b-4c61-434b-b1e2-623536b6463a/ https://minutesof.com/q/f0945d8b-4c61-434b-b1e2-623536b6463a/ “You know as far as the Russians are concerned because of Ukraine we're in a state of grey warfare with them and they are using all sorts of means which are beneath the level of open conflict to cause, well, mayhem in aspects of the West's daily critical infrastructure,” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Sky News Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:33:46 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/f11af726-cad9-4084-9fae-235ae8a78eec/ https://minutesof.com/q/f11af726-cad9-4084-9fae-235ae8a78eec/ “I mean if you just take one player, maybe it's a more clear cut example than one we're talking about which is Russia.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Sky News Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:33:46 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/e557685f-1f35-4149-8784-d5fca55afd2e/ https://minutesof.com/q/e557685f-1f35-4149-8784-d5fca55afd2e/ “if you want to force Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, if you switch off the intelligence for eight days I think it was and during those eight days they pretty much lost the Kursk salient so you can see immediately the detrimental effect it had militarily on the Ukrainians.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:35 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/efa1d7e7-f1d2-475d-9c02-c2ad2b7a055c/ https://minutesof.com/q/efa1d7e7-f1d2-475d-9c02-c2ad2b7a055c/ “It's quite clear you know that the chemistry between Trump and Zelensky is terrible. They don't like each other, they don't get on with each other and that's been clear for some time but if you want to force Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, if you switch off the intelligence” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:35 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/a1a6a655-7a9a-46b6-baa6-cf16f92c8301/ https://minutesof.com/q/a1a6a655-7a9a-46b6-baa6-cf16f92c8301/ “Militarily at the moment they are heavily dependent on American support and it can't really be replicated. What they're being given can't be replicated by any other nation.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:35 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/96119357-b5b2-4d20-a132-c5369ef9636c/ https://minutesof.com/q/96119357-b5b2-4d20-a132-c5369ef9636c/ “There will be, for sure, Russians who will be offering their services to the Americans or to other Western nations because they so fundamentally disagree with Russian policy.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Hoover Institution Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:21:01 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/b9bc7189-2e89-467b-b0bd-ffc371097fb9/ https://minutesof.com/q/b9bc7189-2e89-467b-b0bd-ffc371097fb9/ “I think the fact that we're not constrained by European community membership, by common foreign and defense policy which the EU tries to promote, made a huge difference because we have much more flexibility.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Hoover Institution Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:21:01 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/8e5c613d-3adb-4b8d-8aec-b1f7d280b17c/ https://minutesof.com/q/8e5c613d-3adb-4b8d-8aec-b1f7d280b17c/ “The UK is Europe's leading intelligence and security power, and of course we also are one of Europe's leading defense powers, and I think you just have to see what's happened in Ukraine and the way that we would have been able, as it were, to lead on the support for the Ukrainians.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Hoover Institution Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:21:01 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/a40114ae-b2a9-401d-8df3-aa5297e177b7/ https://minutesof.com/q/a40114ae-b2a9-401d-8df3-aa5297e177b7/ “the Russians have a naval base at Sevastopol that gives them control over the Black Sea.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/77f11780-bb37-4449-8ef5-f3d2f308a946/ https://minutesof.com/q/77f11780-bb37-4449-8ef5-f3d2f308a946/ “You've got Austin saying that our objectives here go beyond Ukraine is to basically to kick Russia out of the League of Great Powers.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/0be61ad9-b516-46c3-8210-2a3b549a08f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/0be61ad9-b516-46c3-8210-2a3b549a08f1/ “I'm willing to arm Ukraine under Cold War rules, I e, the way that we armed the mujahideen in Afghanistan.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 ukraine https://minutesof.com/q/5d3062ec-b542-4fa6-a07a-2391f0d52a5f/ https://minutesof.com/q/5d3062ec-b542-4fa6-a07a-2391f0d52a5f/ “He said our objective is we have the power to impose overwhelming costs on our target. Okay, economic costs. And he said our cause Putin's actions are remembered as a strategic failure, not regime change.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast Sat, 26 Mar 2022 05:49:32 +0000 ukraine