and in general he provided a very optimistic view of this development in russia. the ukrainian president, by the way he highlighted the full scale weakness of russia. he said that the longer russia continues war on ukraine on ukrainian ground, the more chaotic gets on its own ground. we are following these developments coming in from rostov on don and also from the cities of voronezh and lipetsk, where residents have been told to stay indoors. we are monitoring the progress of a reported wagner mercenary military column. a witness has said that russian military helicopters have fired on this military convoy. i want to show some live pictures of
ukrainian president, by the way he highlighted the full scale weakness of russia. he said that that the longer russia continues war on ukraine on ukrainian ground, the more chaotic get on its own ground. the challenge, though, for the ukrainian military, and for kyiv, and for president zelensky is, that despite the political cool disunity that we are seeing on the side of russia, the reality on the ground is that russia has had a long time to build trenches, to install tank traps, to install mines, heavily across regions of the parisian and donetsk. the physical situation hasn t necessarily changed, and president zelensky has acknowledged that the counteroffensive hasn t been swift as kyiv would like. that must still be in the awareness that there are still thousands of troops in russia, and that they are still