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russia s strategy? russia doesnt russia s strategy? russia doesn t have russia s strategy? russia doesn t have a russia s strategy? russia doesn t have a strategy. | doesn t have a strategy. russia, britain s strategy is to wait out the west, wait out ukraine putin s strategy. hope that somehow we will give up hope that somehow we will give up all the ukrainians will give up, people will get tired of supporting ukraine, and that is a failing batch, it s a failing bat. the united states is strong, europe is stronger but nato is strong, the ukrainians are strong. so putin is going to lose that bad, he doesn t have a strategy stop at the same time, ukrainian counteroffensive does appear to be moving slowly. find counteroffensive does appear to be moving slowly. be moving slowly. and in an interview be moving slowly. and in an interview with be moving slowly. and in an interview with cnn - be moving slowly. and in an | interview with cnn yesterday residents are lenski said he
more minefields and then more. and going through minefields is very very difficult, in particular if you are short of ammunition for your artillery. so president zelensky is right about the need for weapons and ammunition in order to accelerate that counteroffensive. your reporter is also right, what the ukrainians are doing it slowly, methodically but steadily probing and finding weaknesses on the russian line, and then the ukrainians have not committed their main forces. when they find the weakness they have their main forces ready to punch through. so that is what we will be looking for in terms of this counteroffensive. ~ ., counteroffensive. we mentioned the new york counteroffensive. we mentioned the new york times counteroffensive. we mentioned the new york times is counteroffensive. we mentioned the new york times is reporting | the new york times is reporting tonight president biden is on the verge of giving cluster munitions to ukraine, these are bombs that rake apart i
told us that, actually, yevgeny prigozhin is not in belarus, but he was in saint petersburg, he may be in moscow today and the wagnerfighters are not in belarus. he indicated they went back to their camps in russian occupied eastern ukraine. mr lukashenko said he also will be discussing the situation with wagner with vladimir putin in the near future, although the kremlin has not given any date for that discussion. so what is happening, what is actually going on? who knows. we also talked about nuclear weapons because the kremlin has said it is moving tactical nuclear weapons from russia to belarus and alexandr lukashenko said some have arrived and more would arrive by the end of the year. a short while ago he said that god forbid he should actually have to take the decision to use those weapons. i said to him, these are not your weapons to take the decision to use
slow going, trying to push through russian defences, probing them, looking for a place where perhaps a largerforce can be pushed through, but clearly there was a lot of shock today at that targeted strike which killed so many in lviv. we can speak now to ambassador bill taylor, former us ambassador to ukraine, and vice president for europe and russia at the us institute for peace. good evening to you, thanks for joining us. how significant is it to see such a large strike on lviv, so farfrom the it to see such a large strike on lviv, so far from the front lines? . on lviv, so far from the front fines? ., , .h , fines? that is exactly the oint, fines? that is exactly the point. but fines? that is exactly the point, but there - fines? that is exactly the point, but there is - fines? that is exactly the point, but there is no - fines? that is exactly the - point, but there is no military rationale for these strikes. it is not close to the front line, there were no military target