and, you know, i think my view is more of an asymmetric response because ukraine has the upper hand on the battlefield and trying to go after the economy, and other ways increasing the cost of the war in ukraine but other way trying to deter further arms deliveries. overall on the battlefield itself ukraine has a number of advantages, and there s some stalemates in some areas, but i think overtime ukraine will likely be able to use those advantages to achieve more success and russia trying to respond in a way they can respond basically. as part of this everyone is trying to understand how stable putin is, how stable his inner circle is, and i mention that response to cnn and the head of the group and regarding those soldiers. he s recruited prisoners, now forcing prisoners to wear bracelets to identify various diseases that they have. and it comes right after he slammed putin s defense minister making it clear he thinks he should be gone. that s all out in the open.
[end of translation] they beat him so badly, his arms turned blue from defending his head. still there, months later. stalemates have torn these huge expanses up for months. now, it s broken, as has the fear of the kremlin s army here. bereft, abandoned, filthy, and vanishing down the road. nick paton walsh joins me now from southern ukraine. russian military is doing right now is regrouping. is that accurate? is there any sense, or wait to tell if the russians are in fact falling back and forming a new do fronts of line? or simply retreating? they definitely falling back, certainly. the word regrouping was also used to describe their maneuvers around kharkiv, when they fled. so we aren t exactly clear how extensive the route on the west bank of the dnipro has been. it was bad yesterday, but the russian
russians decided he was ukrainian informer and beat him. they brought me from here and put a foot on my head and taped it up. then we walked a few steps up and down. they beat him so badly his arms turned blue from defending his head, still left months later. stalemates had torn these huge expanses up for months, now it s broken, as has the fear of the kremlin s army here. bereft, abandoned, filthy and vanishing down the road. now yet again there s a fundamental decision point for russian officials about what they do with their presence on the left side of that river. it is under continual ukrainian pressure. it is poorly supplied and probably pretty poorly managed. do they politically hold out as long as they can because the provincial capitol of kherson
crime and quality of life issues, the homeless, et cetera. this is kind of a distraction for them for their using it as that. i don t think voters are going to be distracted the same way that their mayors are trying to get them distracted, do you? the critics cite this as a gimmick by abbott produce a little bit of a gimmick on both sides. to your point i think mayor adams would prefer to talk about this and progressive theories in texas and to deal with those problems. i agree i don t think this is going to distract people for long. but what abbott is trying to do is break some of the political stalemates. border arrests, border patrol arrest hit a record high end may parts of the 220,000 people. he is making the point that why should texas, arizona, border states shoulder all of the burden for this problem? why can t we get any legislation in congress to get that done? the answer is we have stalemate
heads for a final twist. game on. patrick 6eary, bbc news. it s pretty finally balanced. i think obviously when you set such a big total, you re not really thinking about was going on in the game, you rejust making sure thinking about was going on in the game, you re just making sure you get somewhere near there. we managed to do that, quite a lot has happened in the afternoon sessions, so it s left anyone democrat everyone and with a chance. now, with wimbledon starting in just two weeks, worrying news straley rolled the dice, substituting their captain matt ryan for apparently she specialist. the sydney shot stopper sending his side through in dramatic fashion after 120 minutes of stalemates. australia heading to qatar where there will be in group d along with denmark, france and tunisia. to football and the nations league tomorrow, wales travel to