department numbering over 200,000 russian dead and wounded. >> ukraine has suffered tremendous losses both in this fight and all across the country over the past year but ukraine and the u.s. are less transparent about those numbers. the united states would like to see ukraine shift its focus from bakhmut to a looming counteroffensive in the south that would be made up some newly trained troops and armored vehicles. today we learned that 635 ukrainian troops had just finished a five week training course at a u.s. base in germany, a second phase has now started with 710 new ukrainian troops. much of the training focused on combined arms and maneuvers with those armored vehicles that the u.s. believes will be critical in taking back territory from russia. >> thank you very much. and outfront now, the senior fellow at the atlantic council is based in the southern