and so a senior adviser to president zelenskyy said the ukrainian army is beginning to be able to effectively strike russian forces. quote, the fact is drastically this fact is drastically changing the disposition of the sides. are you seeing any evidence of that? indeed. i mean, we were basically beating them back in those towns which i mentioned on the road to the western water. i was just a few days ago in the city of makari, a site of fierce tank battles, unimaginable horror and tragedy with almost every single street destroyed. and the city has been simply recaptured by our fours and russia driven to the outskirts of town. it is not just there. we are fighting back.
do this right away because this is this is basic armor doctrine. you know, i served for almost six years in germany, most of it in armored units and fought in desert storm and tank on tank battles. and these are some of the basic elements that you do. you don t just stop on both because it makes you so vulnerable. and i think they had been hit so many times by by ukrainians fighters interdicting it that they finally just said let s get off the road, get into defensive positions, which makes it harder to attack them and easier to defend several of these units. as your correspondent just mentioned, there are actually firing position and they re close enough to kyiv to where they can actually fight from there. so it does appear that they re getting ready for maybe a larger onslaught onto kyiv in a more coordinated fashion. yet at the same time that you also mentioned that large tank column was hit, which is really a head scratcher because it was the horrible tactics, the tactical level an
you can certainly cause a lot of damage, which is happening. you can cause chaos, and an attempt by the citizens of the city to flee. but there are no russian forces other than in the city of kherson in the south that are truthfully occupying any cities yet. the ukrainian fighters and the resistance have pushed back against that. and because we re hearing explosions in the dark, does not necessarily mean that they are shelling. it could be tank-on-tank battles, antitank weapons systems versus tanks. that is what appears to be going on. a lot of reports from the ukrainian general staff is saying they continue to force the russians to pull back, they continue to see damaged russian equipment, abandoned russian equipment. so it s a tough fight on the ground. and what we continue to focus on, unfortunately, is the artillery strikes, the missile strikes on the city. general, russia striking an
would suggest they re trying to encircle the capital. is that one of your worries? they are trying to encircle the capital. they are trying to cut our western supply routes. they have been going to the cities from the bath to the western water with european union and they are basically right to cut our supply lines in every way. and the battles have been rage raging for the last couple of days in those small towns, in and around kyiv, that you have seen with russian shellings, with tank battles unlike anything seen since the second world war. and the thing is that we are having to defend and try to keep that supply route open. what do you i know that western allies and nations are sending weapons. the president, zelenskyy, has called for a no-fly zone, but western nations, including the united states, have been quite clear, they do not want to
they are trying to encircle the capital. they are trying to cut our western supply routes. they have been going to the cities on the path to the western border with european union. and they are trying to cut our supply lines in every way and the balls have been raging for the last couple of days in those small towns, in and around kyiv, that you have seen with russian shelling buildings, with tank battles unlike anything since the second world war. and the point here is that we are basically having to defend and try and keep that supply route open. what do you i know that nato allies and western nations are sending weapons. the president zelenskyy has called for a no-fly zone. but western nations, including the united states, have been quite clear they do not want to