Ukraine Military History Podcast

Rob Lee is back in Kyiv after another round of frontline visits — from Zaporizhzhia to Donetsk to Kharkiv — talking directly with frontline commanders and the R&D teams building the war’s newest capabilities. In this episode Sam Cook stands in for Dmytro Putiata and interviews Rob on what’s actually changed as of early June 2026. The headline shift: deep strike is no longer Russia’s game. Ukraine is now hitting at operational depth too — with cheap, scalable drones, corps-level strike assets like Hornets, and a brigade-to-corps reform that’s giving commanders real ownership of their battlespace. Rob walks through where the front is genuinely different from a year ago, where it’s still grinding (Kostiantynivka, the Kramatorsk–Sloviansk line), and why he wouldn’t be surprised to see successful Ukrainian armor assaults this year. A granular, on-the-ground read from the analyst with the access to get it.

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