ukraine. officials have said offensive actions are under way in the countries ease where the company eight catches deputy describing bakhmut as the epicentre of hostilities in claiming russian forces are also on the defensive in the south. we ve been looking at the video footage circulating. we ve been looking at the video footage circulating. ukraine says its forces are footage circulating. ukraine says its forces are shifting footage circulating. ukraine says its forces are shifting to - footage circulating. ukraine says| its forces are shifting to offensive actions in some parts of russian occupied territory. earlier today the russian defence ministry said they had forwarded a major ukrainian offensive. what s going on? let s take a look. russia claims at this video shows evidence of a major ukrainian offensive being repelled. the video is bad quality and all we can see is military vehicles being under heavy fire. we can t say anything beyond that. we know that the vi
is much more popular then the west portends. he s got a lot of support. my portends. he s got a lot of support. my book is about why we pushed the russians a bit too far. that doesn t at all forgive the war crimes, the atrocities and so on. it s going to be a longer war that we anticipated. not just the be a longer war that we anticipated. notjust the nine month phoney war, this is going to be a tough sledding warfor the their product this is going to be a tough sledding war for the their product but believe big tank battles. but armoured vehicle battles since 1916. you talk about nine months of phoney war. certainly for all of those people in ukraine it certainly doesn t feel like that. you mention in your first answer that you anticipated this time there would be air combat operation. what is the current state that you know of the ukrainian air force?