More from the so-called expert analyst in his 5 March interview -
(On the Ukrainian army) "This might have been a shadow army, this might have been an army that looked good on paper but maybe didn't have the depth".
"It appears that the Ukrainians have run out of manpower".
(On Mariupol) "The Russians had to be careful that you don't - as they said in Vietnam - that you don't end up burning down the village to save it, meaning you don't end up destroying Mariupol and killing the Russians to save them".