time the in our series guardians of truth. watch now on youtube dw documentary, the, let's see the leaders line from berlin. ukraine says it's conducting offensive actions along the front line. according to keep, the operations are centered around. the city of buff moved, which is occupied by russian troops. both sides assure the russians have made some progress. also coming up, germany agrees,

closer defense times with indonesia. we'll see how in changing security concerns and the, you know, pacific have jeremy and looking more closely at a region far away from his backyard. i'm a use top chord hands, poland a fresh legal set back the european court of justice, rules of 2019 judicial reform violates is you want the really welcome to the show. officials in ukraine say their forces are moving to offensive actions along the front line, ukraine's military release. this video, which they say shows their troops firing on russian positions nearby. flint, russia claims have repelled a large scale ukrainian attack on sunday. ukraine's deputy defense minister dismissed some reports of account are offensive as russian misinformation to distract from russian losses. a well, i asked like martin

a senior fellow at king's college in london and a former british army officer to tell us how he reads the situation. i think i think there's 2 things going on on the crate inside. they are actually announcing things off to they've already happened. so if they say that they are increasing offensive operations, that means 3 days ago they started increasing their phone. so prices on the russian side, the russians have a real problem. in belgrade, i think square, you tried the rather the rushing freedom legion is, is on russian territory and taking russian villages. so russia is talking about and the thing except for the incursions into his own territories. so that's how i read both the crating and the russian statements. we have been talking about this, this anticipated inc. raining counter offensive for a long time. now are we any closer to this now? a look i, i think it's been going on for quite some time. so for the last months we'll say

we've been having shaping operations, which uh, yeah, basically the ukrainians have been taking out russian trying to control and also doing reconnaissance to find out where russian formations are, what we've seen over the last week or so. and this is what i think the training that you defense when it's that was alluding to off all what you cool, reconnaissance and force where you push into areas where our russian troops ought to see what response you get. and if they reinforce the area, then you pull back and you go somewhere else. and if they don't reinforce, then you can push through and exploding got to area. so really we just slightly up the time of what's been going on for the last month. and again, the fax mode is seemingly at the center of it, at least at the center of one of these operations. how, how do you see it? why would they start there? where they, they spend so much time finding and then ultimately land. mm hm. well, the thing about the flute is the russians have, for the last 6 months,

been obsessed with capturing it. and now they have captured it. and they lodge, you did that with the vault and private military company involved and i have not pulled out and left large areas of bucket moved to russian. army forces who are not as good funky knows as aggressive as of all the metrics. and so the ukrainians are focusing on that a because it's important to the russians, but be because they're able to reverse some of those gains because of all the chiefs and the price with lower quality russian army troops. and what this does is it creates problems between the wagner must raise and the russian army on the other hand, as they have a kind of a competition between themselves and the ukrainians, are focusing on buffalo to exploit that competition and with the russians having so many fires to put out as who is here. explain their now prepared. are they to find back up once this large or counter offensive a comes along or, or intensified? i think there's probably 3 things. i think that the russians are very,

very stretched. and a lot of that forces are exhausted, they just had the 6 month bottle in buffalo. secondly, i think the physical defenses and your listeners watches will know about that pretty seen the videos of these dragon's teeth, these whites pyramids that are meant to stop tanks. it appears now that they're not quite as efficient or as useful as the russians. totally. why? because the ukrainians pushed through them to get tons of russian tires in belgrade . so that's the 2nd problem. and the 3rd problem is this factionalism to be involved and the chechens, the russian army, i mean, just yesterday, a russian army less time and kind of was captured 5 all going to group and paraded on social media. um, i think there were real real problems within the russian ministry structures and being able to resist, you try it and if they're able to get it right. hm. you, graham says plans love silence. and do you think we'll ever see them?

announce the counter offensive or will they as you point out, do so after the fact and keep advancing without advertising it up. this is not going to be like a counsellor of it. so when the film wired office officer stands off and blows whistle and everyone goes over the top with likely to see what we're seeing now, just a rolling series of different activities in this area. and that's the area on the accompanying announcements by the ukrainians, or merely meant to push the russians in one direction to think about that or in the other direction we. we also shouldn't take too much weight from them that just mainly parts of the psychological gave you credit is a problem with the russians. i don't think there's going to be a big start to this, i think is just going to continue over the summer. and then they, you kind of identify an area where they can push and see through the rush lines. and then they will. i was military analysts, mike martin. thank you so much. thank you. on here is

a look at some other source making headlines around the world today. palestinian toddler, who was shot by, is rarely troops last week, has died from his injuries a 2 year old and his father were both shotwell riding in a car. and the west bank is really militaries and soldiers open fire and response to gunman shooting at a jewish settlement. nearby. former us lies president like pens has declared his candidacy for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. this pet spends against those former ally and boss donald trump. the current republican front runner pens joins a growing list of higher profile canada. german foreign minister on elena bab, oak has arrived in brazil for talks focused on climate, the environment, and the war and ukraine. bulk is also heading to columbia and panama. it's a 1st trip to latin america as foreign minister. germany and indonesia have agreed

to strengthen their defense cooperation that includes planning a joint military exercise with other states in the and no pacific german defense minister boars. the story is touring the region which is currently the scene of rising tensions between the us and china and those tensions have countries in east asia and far away. you're thinking more about security. the german defense minister right in jakarta, to an official welcome from his indonesian count about for bowers, so be on to indonesia with its 270000000 inhabitants needs and wants strategic partnerships and new defense capabilities. potentially security challenges in the region. a changing the story is visiting asian countries to demonstrate jim and his willingness to play a positive role. what i came here because of this region were shaping the 21st century and regardless of the security uh, freedom of phonetic ation, and domestic and economic economically, uh,

challenges. and with things like that will be shape here. and there for the region is important not only for germany, but for europe. and it's all, as the ministers agreed to strengthen defense co operation and discuss the possible delivery of german submarines. and today's, you would also like german aircraft, and the story is said he expects a decision on that. see the 2 sides also talked about holding joint military maneuvers in the future. what those could look like is currently being demonstrated at the commode, 2023, navy alexis is just getting started. you to, of the indian easy, an island of slow ways. the dozens of nations are taking part in once described as a trust building opportunity, including russia, china and the united states. the lack of trust between washington and beijing especially over the issue of ty. one is a cause for concern. the story is called on them to keep to ok because otherwise

the space for misunderstandings on and the risk for escalations really would even increase. both of them knows that you know that and therefore i'm quite sure that we'll get back to the table. the last stop on this story is to raise india, and now the potential purchase of gym and made weapons, and another country gemini, sees as a renewable putnam in asia. the european union is highest court has ruled, and poland is controversial. justice reform violates a law. the court in luxembourg of held a finding that the polar supreme court lacked independence and impartiality, which is against in your rules. poland has already been fined. hundreds of millions of euro is over the reform, which was passed in 2019 conservative government and warsaw says the e u is undermining its sovereignty. either way of corresponding jack, parent and brussels is following the story for us. and here is his take on the quarterly this is the final rolling supposed,

and they've lost this case. judges who use top quote, the european court of justice have ruled the discipline to retain, but they both tend to look into the work of supreme court judges in poland. but that's not in line with you. little is the judges of said that the measures are incompatible with the guarantees of an independent judiciary in an e. u. member state. now what that disciplinary chamber was able to do was to punish judges on the contents of the rulings in poland. the european union said that this amazed to a government tinkering in the work of its judiciary. it prevented judges from questioning each other's impartiality. i'm reviewing appointments of other judges and penalties could be things like a reduction of salary for the supreme court judges a suspension of that duties and even a waiver of their immunity from criminal proceedings. if the government didn't like what they was saying, my punishment says that what they were doing was basically

a mind seem to read taking that sovereignty and making sure that judiciary had privacy. but in the you, the european court of justice, which has made this ruling, has the top decisions the final say in e, you little. and that's what we seen with this judgement, not as part of this opponent has incurred fines of the best part of half a 1000000000 your is no more finds will be in cost, but they will be expect to, to pay that money. the european court of justice has said in that ruling, now the context for this is election is coming up paul, them entry elections coming up on a massive part of the ruling law. and justice parties bid is that they stand up to the european union and that they take cases like this, and that they fight the you to make sure the opponent has its own sovereignty. this will play into those elections. the coming up says jack barrack reporting from brussels to south african, our

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here's a quick reminder of our top story here on the daily news today. your grades, deputy defense minister, says ukrainian forces are conducting once she calls offensive operations along the front line. and ultimate comes out for russia, said it had repelled a large scale your brain in attack, and the don't ask region on sunday. that's all for now. business with rob watts is that make sure to stay tuned for that. i'm really from all of us here in the newsroom. thank you so much for your company. the have to say there's to us the that's why there's.