happening with the ukrainians, with the russians, and if they are having any success. yeah. so where we are is the russian offensive, this is their third offensive that began early february. it culminated, despite some local attacks, i mean it failed. and it failed just like the other two that they have conducted. so, obviously, what we have all been talking about is ukrainian counteroffensive. shaping operations, military term, which means preparing battlefield and setting the conditions for a counteroffensive to be successive began, we think, last week around 9 may. and what we have seen is a number of attacks made in russia and also crimea dealing with fuel, munition sites. close to the battle field, command and control centers. they are using the british storm shadow cruise missile that they gave them. the brits didn t admit that they had given that to them until it was well in hand and maybe also
airspace, doing everything they can to stand in the way of a defense against the invasion. i m curious what your thoughts are, also what you are hearing from other nato allies about the fact that germany seems to be more interested in protecting vladimir putin than a country that s now teetering on the brink of invasion. ye, germany s intransigence is rankling allies as well. the brits didn t ask the germans if they could fly their transport planes they were sending ukraine over their airspace because they didn t want to put germany in the position of saying no. then the estonians wanted to send arms to help the ukrainian effort, and germany said no
sources that you re talking to, are they concerned about the way the president might handle this week? there s always concern. if you remember, this is not a summit, supposedly. they re calling it a leaders meeting because the brits didn t want to call too much attention to a lot of what is going on, in part because the last summit was a borderline disaster. last summer they had a nato summit in brussels, which was followed by trump s meeting with putin in helsinki when he disa vowed his own intelligence agencies. but also at the last nato summit, president trump s own officials did what they could to sort of carve off the gains and sort of the announcement they were going to make away from the president and make sure that he didn t pay too much attention to it so he couldn t blowup the meeting and they still got out of it thinking that he had blown up the meeting. i want to talk about your article and the president s decision to essentially protect eddie gallagher. you ve talked t
a crash out of the european union would they be seen as the bad guys in this situation. nobody really wants to take the blame you re right about that and that s why it s very likely that there will be some kind of extension although you know the delay that the default option is still the train crash that would be a no deal bragg s it so that s why presumably they are disk. a system that has certain automatic elements so at the end they can say listen the brits didn t you know they didn t. follow our conditions at this given point and that s why it s no longer the fault of the e.u. twenty seven but you always have to keep in mind even if the use shying away from being responsible for this at some point there will have to be a decision and it might be a no deal bragg s it and there s just no shying away from this because you cannot extend forever you can say ok there is no brags it but the u.k. would have to do that but at some point that will have to be a decision yeah it s amazing isn
another attack may be imminent after a crude device detonated this morning on the london subway injuring 29. officials are zeroing in on a person of interest. london is loaded with cc tv cameras. they usually have very good imagery to go on. it s what the u.s. president did after that attack is drawing criticism in the uk. trump said this on twitter. quote, another attack in london by a loser terrorist. these are sick and demented people who were in the sights of scotland yard. must be proactive. british prime minister theresa may was later asked whether the president s wording there about in the sights of scotland yard meant that he knew something the brits didn t or he had been briefed on something that wasn t public yet. i never think it s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation. the police security services are