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to go down that path, one government source put it to me that it would be in regret and not in anger. and negotiations will, of course, continue with the european union. in the fallout from brexit as we had so much in the run up to it, it can often sound like crisis points are approaching or big threats are being made, but in reality this is probably a long and complicated process with no easy solutions or quick fixes at hand. process with no easy solutions or quick fixes at hand. jonathan blake, thank ou. ukraine says its troops who have been counter attacking near the country s second largest city, kharkiv, have advanced as far as the russian border. ukrainian forces have been retaking territory in north eastern areas in recent days, as russian forces focus on the donbas region further south. it comes as nato officials said russia s strategy in the east of ukraine may be stalling, amid heavy losses and fierce resistance. meanwhile one of the biggest ever nato military exercises
country to get involved. no progress about the possibility of a third party country getting involved. thank you so much for that live for us from kyiv. joining us now, retired u.s. army general. i want to start with what s going on in odesa here. repeated, constant russian air strikes on that port city. i want to push in there. tell me what you see going on here. what are the russians doing and why? they are trying to wreak havoc. they are trying to terrorize the citizens. they are trying to attack towards odesa and secure the land bridge all the way across to moldova. i submit to you the ukrainians are doing an excellent job of counter attacking. they have been pushing down in this area. they have been able to stall all the efforts thus far to move any ground forces. they doing the only thing they can which is bomb the people of odesa and they are not being very successful. we know the main russian eft is near in the east. does the odesa effort distract
there. you ve really seen no big change to these lines for about two weeks. the ukrainians have been counter attacking, were very local counterattacks. here the russians are digging holes for their tanks because they ve taken such losses. they re really not within artillery range of the center of the city. they re rubbling these little villages on the outside. keep in mind this is 320 square miles compared with all of new york city is 300 miles in total. again, pretty much a stalemate here, but again, very much a bloody one. let s go down to the south let s look at this corridor. this is important. we have russian troops absolutely pummelling mariupol. we ve heard these horrible stories about citizens being taken out into russian camps of
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