are counter—attacking. our security correspondent, frank gardner, has this assessment of the russian military campaign and the problems its troops have encountered. so just why has it gone so badly for russia in these first few weeks of the war? well, there are a number of reasons. there is a strength of the ukrainian resistance. most of the population has rallied round their government, with troops using western supplied weapons like javelin and stinger missiles. and when it comes to getting inside big cities, russia doesn't have enough troops to take on the defenders in most cases. here's their charismatic president, volodymyr zelensky, a one—time comic actor who has rallied the nation, refusing to leave the capital even though there is a bounty on his head. then there's poor russian tactics. russian commanders on the ground have largely failed to take full advantage of all the tools at their disposal. things like armoured