western allies meet in germany to discuss further backing for ukraine. drug smugglers are using submarines to bring millions of dollars worth of cocaine from south america into europe. we from south america into europe. have a special re; welcome back. representatives from 50 nations are meeting to discuss further support for ukraine in germany at the moment and we are expecting a news conference from the defence ministers in the next little while and we are expecting to hear from lloyd austin and of course about the additional support for ukraine, the critical thing. the final preparations are being made so i do not think we are that far away. we were talking to the deputy director of the centre for strategic and international studies, director of the centre for strategic and internationalstudies, emily, and international studies, emily, and internationalstudies, emily, and internationalstudies, emily, and i was going to bring her back but we can see that the news conference
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the last six months prior to when the offensive began injune, all the time that the ukrainians were getting trained up in the west and building up these armoured brigades, the russians used that time to dig in, really effective, almost impregnable defensive lines. they re not stupid. they looked at the map and they thought the obvious place ukraine is going to want to try and drive their main thrust is going to be south of zaporizhzhia towards the sea of azov to try and split the russian occupied area in two. so they put in deep trenches, tank traps, concrete dragons teeth blocks, minefields, interlocking arcs of fire, all covered by artillery. and that s proving quite an obstacle to the ukrainians. it s not completely impregnable, but the progress they re making is very slow. and quite costly in terms of lives? hugely costly. and one of the big differences between the two armies is that the ukrainians care about their casualties. the russians seem to have
the ukrainian army has been planning a big counter offensive to push the russians out of the areas they ve been occupying. commentators in the west have been hugely optimistic. though, when i interviewed president zelensky in kyiv a few months ago and spoke to him off camera about the counteroffensive, i noticed he was a great deal more cautious. well, it started a month ago, and i asked frank gardner, the bbc security correspondent, how it was going. well, i think there were some unrealistic expectations of the ukrainians, because so much had been given to them in terms of western hardware, western training, western financial help. the last six months prior to when the offensive began injune, all the time that the ukrainians were getting trained up in the west and building up these armoured brigades,
the last six months prior to when the offensive began injune, all the time that the ukrainians were getting trained up in the west and building up these armoured brigades, the russians used that time to dig in, really effective, almost impregnable defensive lines. they re not stupid. they looked at the map and they thought the obvious place ukraine is going to want to try and drive their main thrust is going to be south of zaporizhzhia towards the sea of azov to try and split the russian occupied area in two. so they put in deep trenches, tank traps, concrete dragons teeth blocks, minefields, interlocking arcs of fire, all covered by artillery. and that s proving quite an obstacle to the ukrainians. it s not completely impregnable, but the progress they re making is very slow. and quite costly in terms of lives? hugely costly. and one of the big differences
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