Against russia now in its second month. fighting has been ongoing in the eastern donetsk and south eastern zaporizhzhia regions. ukraine says its forces have continued their advances around the city of bakhmut, and have retaken nine settlements and 160 square kilometres of territory since the start of the counter offensive on 4june. this is all happening as president zelensky spends time in turkey for talks with his counterpart, recep tayyip erdogan. it s part of a diplomatic push ahead of next week s nato summit. zelensky is expected to seek support for his country s bid for nato membership, but also urge erdogan to end his opposition to sweden joining the alliance. earlier, i spoke to us democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi about the situation in ukraine. the ukrainians need to have what they are required to have in order to prevail in this criminal invasion of their country. so i think the white house is correct to provide them with these and other