kremlin. have seen this chaos in the kremlin- have seen this chaos in the kremlin. , ~ ., , kremlin. sorry, ambassador, but with all of this kremlin. sorry, ambassador, but with all of this in kremlin. sorry, ambassador, but with all of this in mind, with all of this in mind, potentially diminished morale, the fact that these troops haven t yet gone back what could this essentially been on the battlefield for you ukraine? how could they take this moment to capitalise, and also do they have what they need to do so? we also do they have what they need to do so? also do they have what they need to do so? we will see if they have need to do so? we will see if they have what need to do so? we will see if they have what they - need to do so? we will see if they have what they need - need to do so? we will see if they have what they need to | need to do so? we will see if i they have what they need to do so. if they succeed, if they break through the line, and they then exploit th
the prigozhin wagner group was one of the toughest ones. they did grinding work but they did effective work, in bakhmut, as we know, and they were pulled off the line. prigozhin pulled the wagner group out of the line to march north towards moscow. it s thought they might be going back to the south. they haven t gone back into ukraine yet. all to say that the russian forces are still weaker today than they were two days ago. russian forces in ukraine are trying to defend that long line of like 600 miles, 900 kilometres. that s a long line for them to defend, and they have fewer people to do it. and their morale is lower because they have seen this chaos in the kremlin. sorry, ambassador, but with all of this in mind, potentially diminished morale, the fact that these troops haven t yet gone back,
support going forward. and vladimir putin went to belarus a couple days ago to supposedly convince the belarus people and army to join him in this venture. can you give an update on the status of the belarus army? how sophisticated are they? first, remember belarus has already been at it, already involved, engaged. they have allowed russia to use their airspace and their ground space to invade ukraine. now, belarusian troops haven t been physically involved, but belarus is a country very much involved. this is an army that is very much in the russian-style, ex soviet style. we don t have complete visibility on every asset and unit in belarus but we don t believe that the belarusian military is certainly anymore advanced or capable than what we see from the russian army on the ground in ukraine. that is to say they would, they had their own struggles with respect to logistics, support,
they this morning. what is the russian end game there with the heavy shelling? to try to stop what is for them not just a public relations embarrassment, but also to free up some of their troops that are still fighting to get the ukrainians out of that steel plant so that those troops can join the fight for the rest of donbas. i ve already heard from military experts who use open source intelligence to examine troop movements every day. and they say that you can see that the russian troops haven t done what you are classically supposed to do if you are going to take a lot of territory, and that is mass their forces. so instead, you ve got this sort of piece meal attack of the eastern donbas region, and that means that they are behind schedule, and they also present a target for the ukrainian forces to pick off and those
i do not know. they are very positive, but it is trauma for the whole of their life and it is a tragedy of millions of ukrainian children. the peace the couple thought they had found does not last long. another air raid warning and their eldest is nowhere to be seen. this is how the worry of war weighs heavily on parents. they find him, he is safe, all is well for now, but families are on edge all across ukraine, nervous and uncertain what their future will bring. our correspondentjenny hill gave us this update from moscow. i think this was a piece of classic kremlin pr, mr putin addressing a domestic audience. nothing really substantially has changed on the ground in mariupol. his troops haven t been able