forcibly annex for ukrainian regions by signing into law measures approved by russia s parliament. this action coming as russia is losing ground in the very regions moscow is claiming as its own. ukrainian troops are making significant gains amid a powerful advance in the south, where ukraine says russian forces are leaving minds and villages as they retreat. president vallarta ms. zelinski says his troops are pushing even further towards the russian occupied city. this, as ukraine forces race the nation s flag over more liberated towns and one official says troops are breaking through russian defenses in the region. the ukrainian army is quite rapidly and powerfully advancing in the south of the country. as ukrainian forces regain ground, they are finding
that they would use it on alexander dugan, i think that vladimir putin i would not rule out the possibility it was his own security services that wanted to deliver a message to those old torah nationalists russians who were critical for failing to topple the zelinski government as he was supposed to do in days of the military operation in a lot of russian hard-core right wing nationalists who are frustrated with this highly ineffective military campaign that is done not a lot of but just humanitarian catastrophe in ukraine. and roughly according to the pentagon, 80,000 russian casualties. neil: so you re saying it s possible it could come from the left or the right to because of the frustration here. but do you think that we will later learn that there were such attacks to take him down or remove him from power? he obviously travels with great confidence. no one has faced a coup in his absence, what do you think?
putting everything they ve had into one axis of advance and gradually using artillery that they have worn down and ukrainians. and taking significant amount of cash in the upcoming weeks they are likely to take an operational pause. this person s opportunity for zelinski. what he would like to do is go on the offensive. with secular pet auto was just talking about and begin the retake territory. will they have taken to casualties heavier than they have in the past so it will not be easy this meeting at nato was a tipping point because they do, what they have been doing is not going to be enough. their part far any countries like france and germany who will who are powerful economic countries that have significant and military capable capabilities but they are not a nato. the united states is pretty much all and we have recovered from the slow steps in the beginning and we have relieved back to ukraine rather significantly. no other country is even close as an example we have given
ukraine according to european union officials, ukraine is less than two weeks away from knowing if their candidate to join the review is funny is ramping up in eastern don bass region, here are the details from kyiv. use present volodymyr zelensky s own words been a big diplomatic a marathon it usually what we see with him is that he tries to shore up support for ukraine and a form of weapons to be used in the fight against russia what he has been doing lately soaring up supports for membership into the european union any did that yesterday meeting with ursula and president of the european commission as she made her way to tell him and zelinski welcome back to 24th of ukraine is been approved as a candidate for e you membership i am sure that will receive an answer on the candidate see from your credit i m not can convince they can strengthen our state that the
johnson is the guy that walks 3000 miles i think it says on there to take a walk with you through kyiv. sort of sums up the way about the two leaders, which is ironic because he wanted to be the wartime leader and he is the wartime leader butjust not in the uk. that s right. i am not surprised actually how the ukrainians feel about prime ministerjohnson because he did show a very public support right in the beginning. he travelled to kyiv and right here in the us president biden has not visited kyiv. and so to see that is a big deal. and the type of arms shipments he is sending along with others of course, germany is sending a lot of arms shipments in the us of courts, and it s really remarkable and for president zelinski, he came out obsolete after the no confidence vote to saint he was pleased to see the prime minister was staying and i don t think actually by the way that the british support for ukraine would have changed under different leadership but however prime