How to pronounce“pudans”in English

Pudans has no doubts about Putin's desire to move beyond Ukraine once he can.

Kaspars Pudans says boots on the ground will still be needed though.

This is General Kaspars Pudans, he's head of Latvia's armed forces.

So if we accept Pudans' hypothesis that Russia has the intention to at least "poke NATO".

General Kaspars Pudans says that where previously military technology drove innovation that then later trickled down to civilian industries, now it's the other way round.

As sobering as these results might be, Kaspars Pudans says that lessons are being learned.

And military planners need to learn from the commercial side, and to take risks and be willing to fail sometimes, says Pudans.