Assessments about ukraines counteroffensive, specifically Ukrainian Forces ability to retake significant territory from russia. Ahead, the many challenges ukraine faces. Here at home, we expect a live update from alabama officials. This after an ugly brawl along a riverfront park. Police have issued at least four Arrest Warrants. We are following the latest. Trumps legal team and the Special Counsel are up against the clock, facing a new deadline. They must respond to the judge within hours over essentially what the Rules Of The Road will be leading up to the trial. We are following major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. We begin with new reporting today about the state of the counteroffensive in ukraine. Weeks into it western officials are describing to me an increasingly sober assessment about Ukrainian Forces ability to retake significant territory now held by russia. The primary challenge for those Ukrainian Forces is the continued dif
today about the state of the counteroffensive in ukraine. weeks into it western officials are describing to me an increasingly sober assessment about ukrainian forces ability to retake significant territory now held by russia. the primary challenge for those ukrainian forces is the continued difficulty of breaking through russia s defenses here, three defensive bands in the east and south of ukraine. these areas are marked by tens of thousands of land mines and here are some of the land mines as they re discovered there in the zaporizhzhia region. extremely dangerous to find and destroy them. in addition to land mines there are vast networks of trenches. ukrainian forces, as they tried to break through the trenches, the land mines and other defenses have been incurring losses in the south and east leading ukrainian commanders to