to the crime, this claim is full, but steady advances as it continues its counter offensive against russian occupying forces. courses, statements from the kleinie and male latrice speak of small patches of territory, catch it in moscow. the claims abroad, letting me put and says he cried, is attacking at least full sect is across the front line ross and las, as he says, adults, why those on the crime inside? i'm anthony. how it in berlin, and this is the day the we just the models of vs, but we're moving forward and that's crucial. the enemy's losses are exactly what we need this year by ticket. i knew that losses are approaching a level that could be described as catastrophic. the russians didn't expect that

speed from us. they started to withdrawal and mediately the journey bit, the last 24 hours, 3 ukrainian attacks packed up. we have time to nominate vehicles, whatever of how to follow the tax will be filed, the one in the tried will not retake this village. we will stand. we all marine infantry glory to ukraine. also coming up, donald trump, pleads not guilty to charges for lighting from his handling of classified documents, whatever the outcome, it's clear. few people divide opinions as much as the former us president. they're trying just, you know, to break him. that's what i think, you know, they're trying to get anything they can to break nobody's above the law. so if he did it anything illegal to ensure go all out and see what you can do. welcome to the dice. deep ranch counter offensive continues with cape climbing to

have made small guides being claimed. government has a pledge right from the start that the information fly would be fulfilled back to avoid putting the military operation in jeopardy. neither a secretary general insult him though. his comment to die, he describes the early stages of the offensive difficult stone book says the client is making advances and the more territory by re capture, the more likely it is that russia will be forced to the negotiating type. in moscow, president flooding may have put in spoken a meeting of military blog as on tuesday rushes objectives and it's for a new crime has not changed. he said, a decline. the crime was suffering 10 times, as many casualty as russia, a claim for which he didn't provide any 1st. we'll get a view of the battlefield from an analyst in just a moment. but 1st, this report didn't fire. i made claims of victory as ukraine's counter offensive gets under way all that?

well the problem kyle, with the representatives of the 100 and 37th battalion of marine infantry and the 35th for gate of the marine infantry, which is that the courts have liberated the village of montgomery if embedded in the region from russian troops to they won't be able to retake this village. they are fine rina's, you're going to hear with artillery motors and tags, but we will hold on glory to crane. key saves it's counter offensive, has read captured villages image on net skins, upper region regions. but the russian defense ministry released these pitches claiming that they had repelled counter offensive attacks by ukrainian false as president putin described opposition law says as close to catastrophic here the shelves, if you all the box of the control rumbles on of the

city was one's home to 12000 people, for the few who remain for her little information is guess for me, if we get the means that, that we don't have electricity, your internet is you have, you came here and told us that the counter offensive had already begun with a political to the fact that we are here walking around and wondering if it started, this doesn't really seem right. because the new teaching of ukraine saves it, has liberated as many as 7 villages on its front lines. 3 of them was the 3 days ago. the russian forces were still here. we change them out from the solution you, laurie to crane. this village was under russian occupation for one and a half years. what things are ukrainian lands to them? no. can i? that may be optimism over parts of games. but beneath the blue and yellow of ukraine's flag light the bodies of those killed in the fight.

for more analysis, we are now joined by adjusting from the military veteran intelligence and security expert ceo of sibling, which is a strategic advisory company, joins us from the you type. right. that'd be with us justin. it's on the dice ending ukrainian counter offensive. what's your understanding of the crime in advance as it stands? i mean, as you just to ukraine, is a balancing on a few axes. and the 2 main ones in the south in the law says that for you sure. and then on the boundary between that some and the dot net region, i'm not c area where your correspond. it was just reporting that, that ukraine has captured a string of villages on the rid of a body that sort of starts to push towards wherever rushes occupies the land. and you try to build these long defensive lines you seen, but they're also pushing in the east and, you know, i talked for about talk much, obviously a big focus of russian defensive activity for

a long period of time. and they've been chief and want to buy the entire city, but ukraine cardi pushing back around there as well. certainly instead, leave in the area and just getting small amounts of ground each day. so put more pressure on the russians that are as well. so they're developing a few options right now. just in the finance. have surprised everyone before. is there anything unexpected? is there anything that a surprise to you about the tactics that you're using? or i'll say no say for in terms of, of what i told him, i think it's very important to say these are the opening stages of a long drawn out offensive by you crime. this is never going to be 3 days to the coast of the sea of us, all of which is probably one of the their intended lines. but it's hacked to try and cut the russians in hoffman. so can you find a threatening crime in that starts probably one of the key objectives they have. this phase is all about slowly gathering ground grabbing information on the russians. seizing up on tases positions, drawing out russian was

a fighting russian artillery electronic both addresses, the monitors, the logistics, it's about talking a lot of those things and building the conditions, the next phase of the attack. and i think that's where you create has real surprises to come, as it develops this complex picture over a period of time. so i think some people been surprised be able to see more advances from ukraine, but it makes sense with a tosser up against this very comprehensive defensive line in the south that they're going to take that time. they're going to go study and they're going to try and build opportunities ms. haven't found the issue. the head of the box, them nice and ready for if you have any progression, say, example, take a month and a half before we can say what the counter offensive has achieved. is that a timeframe you would concur with before we pass judgment? i mean i, i hate to agree with them on anything, a tool to be honest, but um yeah, i think that's entirely my thinking as well. my team. so you mean you creating a several months in hand, effectively to try and re gain territory before the winter sets in again about the

season sets in again. and i think he's right. you know, you called judge a successful failure of this offensive in the 1st day or 2. and even in the 1st week or 2, i think it does take some time before we see ukraine make more daren and bonuses said she wants a while down. the initial level of rushing defensive. so i think that is a good timeframe. this is something we're going to be coming back to. i'm sure quite often to have a look at and see how it's progressing. so nothing that's all decided so far. nothing was taking the battlefield is giving a huge indication of which way it's going, but it was going to be a big from flight long ukraine knows that they were in it alone. and they obviously they're going to keep pushing away these rushing 1st lines of defensive and screening areas for as long as they can to build that picture. i talked about the hob with the crime received a promise to be a game changer on the battlefield. in terms of defense, the patriot system seem to have performed admirably in terms of attack though, do we know how effective the, how it says the, the tanks,

the on the vehicles approving going forward to your a yeah. either or the game changer thing and we've had a time and time again in this complex and this pretty much never been a game changing weapon system and is a roy of them, potentially nuclear weapons and anything short of that and offer you some tax for the volunteer so that nothing on the battlefield is on, on the present. nothing on the battlefield is invaluable. yeah, there is no silver bullet in baltimore science about how you use those things together. and so i think the fact that we've seen some los prussian stories, most of the times, for example, an american bradley on the personal carriers and got some people very concerned that they sold out very early on. but the reality is, i hate to say is take them onto, but your tanks are expendable, they just expect to be quite a bit before they eventually get killed because one of the hard a boys boys brutal um the volunteers you. i think the, the sort of equipment that ukraine's been receiving new singles evidence of this is

that it is much, most of the boat in the russian equipment. and the soviet union didn't particularly value the lives of its people because it had lots of them. so they had adult for and about having lots of cheap equipment. it was very fast, not very well protected, but they could use that on the battlefield in large numbers. the russian equipment now of course, has come from that ancestry. by contrast, nato did not have a lot of soldiers. everybody to the people very highly. and so we built the equipment is much more survivable. you have to take a rama. it has protection prof. i munition explosives and what we see on the battlefield is that the west and supplied equipment when it is destroyed, most commonly by mines. the crews are escaping the infantry and the back of escaping and not able to fight again. and i think that's one of the more interesting points of the coverage we have seen so far off those vehicles in use and again suffering losses. but that is to be expected. they have plenty more and huge amounts that have not yet been committed to the fight. just particularly in terms of the let that you know, this piece of equipment. well,

is there any surprise that your crime is losing these weapons in battle? you know, again, i think expectations were raised because there's a lot of information and aspects of this particular concept 6 on social media books . so the big campaign about the left is the coming. and the reality is, if anyone could pick one of the most average russian tanks, some of the other sites that ukraine has, you would, you would pick? well, that's what as being a much more civilized rubel vehicle, much better to come on, much more capable. but again, it's mostly invulnerable. it is not a box that can be destroyed. it's very easy and nice, lots of operations to have a bad day out with unfortunately, and lose a lot of people, especially when you're trying to get for a minefield. new sort of vehicles and again, it is very important in this that the people managed to escape the crews get back. they can always be put on a new vehicle. we've let not, in previous complex you call replace that trained crew crane especially has a smaller approval of available soldiers. so they have to the golf. those cruise

more is also a huge, the important, some are all and for keeping a full, it's going through a defensive. so compared to rush or it has given you trying to sort of the boss just how does all say fighting very well. noise in the moment during this equipment because it has several sites, it can be based sites. i'm assuming much more use of night time tactics and indeed they used to smoke on the battlefield to protect ease, more more than vehicle was not something we didn't see before. along with an evolution of tactics. so, you know, overall it's definitely a progressing and how you create and is waging more. you know, they all on the offensive now and it's not going to be a week or so it's going to be a few months break. we got a president put into the claim to us, knocked out 30 percent of you. find out that you find a suffering 10 times with casualties, russian forces attacking what do you make it, those clubs, or that they're pretty ludicrous. i mean both sides over say in was almost always making place, explains about what they've done to you and to me. so you always take these numbers with inches so, but the current rushing claims are pretty ludicrous and they don't have the

coverage to back it up. they're showing the same clips again, again in federal sick. i think it's very in places named his own audience, but it is brutal fighting. and you know, as you know about that in mind, this is a hard operation. both sides and little lives going to be lost in the flight testing, correct? correct. to get your input at this critical moment in the will, thanks so much. thank you. the destruction of the nova chemicals, good them and ukraine is close to severe flooding along the need for a river. in areas near the black sea, the region is harm to some of the country's most 1st home agricultural land. any funds on the straight from the flooding? the deputy correspondence on the found like a send us this report from a village in the nickel knife which the village of pablo monday and the scar and southeastern ukraine. it was bombarded heavy leaves all steel, but occupying russian forces, leaving mines and explosives everywhere. no southern flooding has severed baba's

supplies, and cutoff entire areas, the destruction of the gulf of them has affected police is much further away. sure . in the we can live region a meter agricultural area, water levels and who lets river have risen dramatically. and that has a major impact on farms here. there's only one way to get around the village. so that was awesome. the, the water smells chemical. it's really bad and there could be dead fish and dogs. here. the fields were fertilized and not everything's in the water level. the russians didn't get us, but the flood stood to those getting to the appropriate events. father bardeen says many people didn't believe they would be impacted because the dam break occurred nidia 100 in particular. um it has a weight of it, no one was prepared. this isn't the only home and for them to be supplement,

the ratio hands show affected. most of the beans, 200 take the fields have disappeared. his body, sunflower, and wheat. out this somewhere, the polluted in charlottesville has transformed the landscape. the loss of his crops isn't his only worthy measure, but we are hopping from us. we know what it is to lose everything and start again. i tell you if the ground will be contaminated because of a lot of chemicals, diesel, valuable machine, oil will have a different kind of tragedy. you might them and does not have some testing that the us it's a major concern for small. it's almost like monday of wave would be not as we speak at the top, we know how much work was involved. we can plan to this with our own hands. it's all done. and one moment the former teacher mainly grows vegetables for her own family. she and the husband oh, like see the southern floods probably meant many farmers couldn't get the machinery

and farm chemicals to dry ground in time suitable for sure for the skin for just when you get in the water, there must be chemicals in there that could affect the eat me to the ground will be useful. water may be so you put it. my biggest concern is the oldest motor was into the ground. i mean, we'll do an after that. it will be impossible to use this way. also, it's not just tutoring, but even tomorrow shall close tonight, it will be a disaster will to the dumpster, the practice contamination has a longed local authorities. this unit was set up in april last year to monitor the impact of the war on the environment. now the floods of the focus quarter because of this, that the insured, it's a nightmare. yeah. yeah ma'am. and this is all over when the water receives and the long term the situation will get worse. you remove the effects and the the replaces with symmetry. so flooded, so no pets similar to use as well as we will. no one can really say for sure what

the consequences could be. cause is that us, the cable to boston unknown creates a part of life here. like so many settlements near the frontline bob lew money and the school has suffered waves of tragedy and sufficed. the former us president donald trump says he's not guilty to federal judges that he unlawfully kept national security documents. when he left the office trumpet paid at the court in miami to face 37 felony counts, related to the documents and then struck the investigators efforts to recover the convicted secret. tracy as in prison, trump was allowed to leave court without conditions or travel restrictions. and no task on was required. but supporters and opponents of the former president demonstrated outside the courthouse. what's happening in america? they can do this to the leading party. this doesn't happen in america. maybe in

other countries, 3rd world, perhaps we need some decent. se morality in this country, we have lost it now. so we do need some just this. this what has happened over the past couple of years since trump has been in office, has been so. so deviating from the dorm. it's unbelievable. we ever had drunk thoughtful, but we know drop one. i'm here because it is a great injustice. what they're doing to president trump. it is seems that our country is now a banana republic that we do with the 3rd world countries are doing. you should have been locked up a long time ago because he graduated from the school of right. so new york and he has a master's degree. well from all of that spring and my official, he's a senior editor at the washington post. quite. that'd be with us. i feel like

describing it as a spectacle is on the feeling at some what, what goes through your mind when you see the crowds at the courthouse, the wall to wall coverage. you it? well, the baltimore coverage is exactly the right thing to focus on, because the browns themselves were not that large. it's really the meeting expect to go. and that's what does donald trump has always specialized in throughout his career as a real estate developer. as a business man, just so you know, magnate and as a politician. so key is achieving what has always achieved, which is becoming the center of attention english show me. i so use that one, you know, for most people me. busy the, the bottom line is the absolute worst day of what's being arranging for a facing years. it's about decades in federal prison. and what he's created here is a spectacle that quits him as a focus of americans attention,

which is always wanted to be, as he always said, he doesn't care with. the news is very bad as long as he's ever saw habits of those back up the circus, around the courthouse of the psalms, the demonstrations. how does that stack up against the severity of the charges, the trump is facing as it does seem incapable? so it seems like a complete mismatch of people on the street are taking this as some form of entertainment, or perhaps there's some sort of dire threat against the nation that it's the ability. in fact it's neither of those things. busy it is the, perhaps the inevitable data month of a man ran the country as he'd run his business with little regard for the rules with little regard for months. and so to donald trump, it was 2nd nature to take the documents that he was a nice to catch. you will be in charge of when he was president and turned him into

his personal property. this is a serious matter because of classified documents and ball is a serious matter because he, despite the efforts of the f, b, i and justice department to get those documents returned to the government to whom they belong. and so he does face serious threat here. but as you saw me interviews on the street to a lot of people, this does seem like an attack, a political attack on the trip. and they have some grounding for that's nice because they look at other alterations who have perhaps, can infer, include taking government documents home with them, and they're not being tried. and so they see this is perhaps an extreme reaction to transfer. it's beyond all that noise. how strong is the case? the prosecutors have against trump? not. so if you go by the letter of the law of the evidence that's laid out in the indictment, certainly some surpasses any threshold for conviction in this case and appears to

be looking at it. this is what the government has presented. obviously didn't come back in the trial, but i think we've been diagnosed at face value. then clearly trump has done these things. trump is admitted that he took the documents that he was supposed to under ball. it's clear from the evidence that he was objecting to and from steps to when returning some of those documents to the government. but that's very different from getting a conviction in a trial or a jury selected or jury will have different attitudes about trump or dream. well, i've seen a number of ads of news reports about a trunk clinton. this is a personal attack that no one else would be prosecuted for exactly to say that that will resonate with many people. the 1st few prosecution boxes, they want a speedy trial. what are the chances of that happening here?

so this trial is on a collision course with the 2020 for presidential campaign. and the election of the justice department has a standing policy, but they don't they don't try not to enter the election. but we're really, you can't see the only one in 2000. so really making appearances primary since the 1st of things coming up in august. so this case has a collision course. there are explains in thing the inspector timing judge, for example, the attitudes of the lawyers and all the cases. trump himself says he wants to speak, try the past few years. certainly say we want a book from as many ways in which he comes from this down and force. the justice department's hand runs into defense interfering with the

top of the cost loss. some lawyers just before we got to the court in miami, the judge that was a trump, a point, a judge could that have any relevance as the trial goes on to radically itself. supposed judges, of course, are supposed to be independent judges are supposed to take each case as it comes and deal only with the evidence at hand. however, discharging him, dealt with familiar aspect of this documents issue. and when she did, she, the issue means that to be much more difficult to the, the, i mean the access to the documents they me, which was the best dish that just really was overturned by me to serve the panel. that was done just so she was overcome by judges from the background and sewing machine. so i gotta decide what thing for public needs. and democrats as somebody who we have a meeting to trump,

our friendliness to in terms of arguments mistakes. and so there's considerable concern, but she will not be as free and on the up and up as for my cool any of the, the, the fish fish, a senior editor at the washington post. what rod this is going to be, thanks for being with us on the day. thanks. i hope the day is almost done, but the conversation continues online. you'll find us on our social media channels . date of lead use the instant and twitter overall in depth analysis. please go to www dot com. i'm anthony howard in berlin for me and the team here. but hoping you have a good the

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