chosen to focus on it is giving ukraine an opportunity to bleed them while they build up their own forces for this, what we assume will be a counter offensive sometime when their conditions are set. a military doctrine, we would call it an economy of full. of course the ukrainians are suffering terrible casualties there, but they have been able to hang on bakhmut without having to commit these armoured formations they have been building up formations they have been building up in training. strategically, in the end, ukraine, i believe will get a big payoff because of the sacrifice of the soldiers in bakhmut. sacrifice of the soldiers in itakhmut- sacrifice of the soldiers in bakhmut. , ., ., sacrifice of the soldiers in bakhmut. , ., . , ., bakhmut. given therefore what you have said, bakhmut. given therefore what you have said. why bakhmut. given therefore what you have said, why doesn t bakhmut. given therefore what you have said, why doesn t russia - bakhmut. given therefore wh
condition it will be there confident the russian defences have been disrupted, the artillery, logistics and command control have been disrupted. and is the track going to be able to sustain or enable a lot of armoured vehicles moving across the ground? i think that they are probably close to this, but i don t think they have everything they need yet. forwhatever think they have everything they need yet. for whatever reason, we, the west, despite the good we have done, we have still stopped short of saying, we want ukraine to win. if we did that there would be no more excuses about providing longer range precision weapons, fixed wing aircraft, etc. but nevertheless, i think we are within a few weeks of them being ready to go. them being ready to go. general hodues, them being ready to go. general hodges. thank them being ready to go. general hodges, thank you them being ready to go. general hodges, thank you for them being ready to go. general hodges, thank you for being - them be
live now to lieutenant general ben hodges in prague he is the former commanding general of us army europe, and now works as senior advisor to human rights first, a non profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization based in the us. thank you for being with us. can i get your thoughts first of all from what we heard from jonathan beale about bakhmut being the longest and bloodiest centre of the war so far, between 20 and 30,000 russian troops killed there. why is that city so important and what does it tell us about the shape of this war? great re ”ortin about the shape of this war? great reporting by about the shape of this war? great reporting by jonathan. about the shape of this war? (e r reporting byjonathan. bakhmut is strategically important to ukraine only because russia continues to feed so many troops and resources into that meat grinder. the city itself, the location itself is not necessarily strategically important. but the fact that the russians have
what sort of conversations lecturers are having. it will handle things like multiple choice questions for example, it ll handle those very well. it s current format, chatg pt really struggles with any of the kind of higher order thinking that we require graduate students demonstrate. today, universities are being urged to teach students how to use chatgpt and other artificial intelligence tools. bath has actually already started using it in some assessments. so one of the things that s great about chatgpt is the fact that it gets students started on things. it won t give them the answers, but it will give them ideas as to what to think, what to do and how to structure their work. bath s policy on chatgpt and other tools is still in the works and is due to be in place from this september. you re live with bbc news. next to ukraine and the battle for bakhmut. nine months after launching its assault russia has still not managed
many of them here in bakhmut. miroslav tells me they don t care about their people, as we watch two russian soldiers. he says theyjust advance in vain hope. his comrade adds, they walk towards us with no fear. he says they must be on drugs. russia hasn t given up yet. their artillery is still firing, but not as frequently as in the past. ukraine hopes bakhmut will have exhausted their enemy as they now prepare for their own offensive. but it also shows taking ground can prove even more costly. jonathan beale, bbc news, bakhmut.