 British Defense Secretary, war in Ukraine will still be going in a year's time. The war in Ukraine will be going on for at least another year. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told LBC. He stressed that Russian President Putin had already failed in his aim of fully occupying Ukraine with 97% of his army committed and two-thirds of his tanks destroyed. Ben Wallace said, I think Russia has shown a complete disregard not only for the lives of the people of Ukraine but for its own soldiers. You know, we are sitting here 12 months in and 188,000 Russian soldiers are dead or injured as a result of this catastrophic miscalculation and aggression by President Putin. And you know, when someone's crossed the line that they think it's okay to do that to your own people and is running effectively a meat grinder for an army, I think he's not going to stop. Wallace said that an original ambition of Russian President last February 24th was to capture eight main objectives, all the big cities in three weeks and he would have Kiev in three days and it would all be over. His three-day offensive is turned into his 365-day offensive and he has still not captured or held a single one of his objectives. The only objective he did capture was Kursom where he then had to leave a few months ago. So I think the goal of an occupied invaded fully controlled Ukraine of Russia has failed already. I think he's failed in the long run. The reputation of the Russian army is in tatters and he's isolated in the world. Even the Chinese treat him like the embarrassing uncle. They don't really want to speak to him if he adds it. The defence secretary admitted that some of the equipment the UK has sent to Ukraine is more than 30 years old, adding that this was a symptom of the wider budget problems of the British army.