putting everything they ve had into one axis of advance and gradually using artillery that they have worn down and ukrainians. and taking significant amount of cash in the upcoming weeks they are likely to take an operational pause. this person s opportunity for zelinski. what he would like to do is go on the offensive. with secular pet auto was just talking about and begin the retake territory. will they have taken to casualties heavier than they have in the past so it will not be easy this meeting at nato was a tipping point because they do, what they have been doing is not going to be enough. their part far any countries like france and germany who will who are powerful economic countries that have significant and military capable capabilities but they are not a nato. the united states is pretty much all and we have recovered from the slow steps in the beginning and we have relieved back to ukraine rather significantly. no other country is even close as an example we have given
ukraine and that we acknowledge that the one axis of advance that the russians did succeed on is that southern axis of advance out of crimea as commanded by the russian military commander who previously led in syria and cohesive russian lines of advance and that s where the ukrainians need help in pushing back. it s important to recognize that because yes, a lot of ukrainian wins, russian losses but that can be characterized as a russian win there. jennifer, thank you for joining us again. you bet. still ahead, two children hospitalized as a result of the ongoing baby formula shortage. congress is now demanding answers. we ll speak with the lawmaker leading those hearings next. pai, we can help actively repair enamel in its weakened state. it s innovative. my go to toothpaste is going to be pronamel repair.
of donetsk. with the increasing focus on events here with the strong sense that the russians may be trying to concentrate their efforts on one or two axis of advance, and down in the far south of the operational area, there s no sign at all of the russian reducing their efforts there, and that s why it sits on a canal system, and clearly the pressure is continuing from russia, and there s an increasing sense among ukrainians particularly with the new weapons coming in from nato allies, they will be able to get more on the front foot, and then
and there are hopes more civilians can be freed. beyond the besieged steelworks, russia continues its offensive in the donbas. for towns along russia s axis of advance, artillery and missile strikes have become a part of everyday life, as tim muffett reports. scenes that have become so familiar over the past nine weeks another home destroyed, another family rescuing what they can from the aftermath of a russian attack. dobropillia, in the donetsk region of eastern ukraine. seven civilians including three children were injured here, according to authorities. everything is destroyed, this man says. the house is, you can pretty much say, uninhabitable. so we are holding on. the lord will help us, and we will win. the azovstal steelworks in mariupol the final part of the southern port city still under the control of ukrainian troops.
about 200 to 300 miles long in terms of the axis of advance that russia is trying to move on. that s an awful big area. they are looking to find a breakthrough. they will do that with artillery. they will strike the civilian population as they ve done in so many other places, but they re also attempting to use artillery to break through for their tank and mechanized forces. now, that s something that russia claims they can do with combined arms operations. we haven t seen that yet, but getting to your point about the terrain, this is wide open terrain, as john kirby once said, it s somewhat like kansas, very different than the roads that the russian forces had to stay on to the north of kyiv and kharkiv in the first phase of this operation. i don t believe they re going to be able to conduct very good combined arms operation on open fields like they say they can or