lines and at home. now, alex, clearly you ll see this as part of the shaping operations if indeed, of course, these drones are a part of ukraine s war efforts. ukraine they re saying they re not directly responsible, but of course they could be indirectly responsible as they have been for those incursions by russian dissident groups and for various other covert special forces operations that have gone on over many months really in russia, but i think it is significant that at this time they are once again trying to get the russian population to focus on the consequences of war. yeah, quite the escalation in russia. sam kylie in eastern ukraine, thank you very much. let s get more reaction from the top democrat on the house foreign affairs committee, congressman meeks. thank you so much for joining
as ukraine s last real chance to rid their country of the russians or face some kind of inevitable peace process which could mean a loss of territory and freezing of the front line. there is a lot of energy behind this future offensive. i think what we are seeing is shaping operations, bombardments of rundown logistics positions, threats even to strike inside rune territory, special forces operations, mysterious explosions inside russian territory, but of course the russians get a vote with that attack in the west of the country. they continue to go after ukraine s logistical capabilities. thank you. joining us now to talk more this is cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton. let s start with the counteroffensive that s coming. first, what are you expecting that this will look like and how important is timing of when this
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