it's a pleasure to greet our guests. professor gwendolen sasa is political scientist with the center for east european and international studies here in berlin. marcus kime is the security and nato expert with the berlin based think tank s w, p, and fortune. assuming minsky is a colleague working on d, w cohen desk. i'd like to start out with an assessment of where all of you think things stand at the moment ukrainians say that time is running out that cities like g of have saw in car eve and maria pull cannot hold out inevitably indefinitely. and at the same time, some think tanks are reporting that the russian offensive has stalled some even say failed. and that so russian soldiers supplies are running out. so gwendolen, if i may start with you a kremlin friendly newspaper, actually this week published and then very quickly deleted a report that 10000 soldiers russian soldiers have died. we're also hearing the generals has been killed. what do we know about russian losses and their effect on protein strategy? we don't know the exact numbers of those losses. that was indeed remarkab

i will totally agree with gwendolen. i think it doesn't really influence the funding on the ground and they might have an influence depending on the way the water rolls in the next couple of weeks and watch it if you would just say a word to us. in closing, our title asked, who can help you crane? what would be the perception in poland at the moment? is there frustration is there is some frustration in poland. poland clearly demands that the west, the nato, and the western european countries do more for ukraine. that means they send more weapons, they send more money in the may, a bigger diplomatic, pushed towards russia to stop this war. thank you very much. thanks to all of you for being with yesterday. and thanks to all of you for tuning in c, a with who a mafia on the high seas. for the profits from a legal fishing are in men, probably 2nd only to, to drugs and weapons with the journey across the ocean on the trail of king pins on the 15 minutes on d w n to with sebastian, the ukrainian poets of matter. you follow, a

it's a pleasure to greet our guests. professor gwendolen sasa, is political scientist with the center for east european and international studies here in berlin. marcus kime is the security and nato expert with the berlin based think tank s w t. and for check simonian ski is a colleague working on data use, colon desk. i'd like to start out with an assessment of where all of you think things stand at the moment ukrainian say the time is running out that cities like g have san cock eve and maria pull cannot hold out inevitably indefinitely. and at the same time, some think tanks are reporting that the russian offensive has stalled some even say failed. and that so russian soldiers supplies are running out. so gwendolen, if i may start with you a kremlin friendly newspaper, actually this week published and then very quickly deleted a report that 10000 soldiers russian soldiers have died. we're also hearing the generals has been killed. what do we know about russian losses and their effect on putting strategy? we don't know, and then quickly taken down again, there might be even more cas

so gwendolen, if i may start with you a kremlin friendly newspaper, actually this week published and then very quickly deleted a report that 10000 soldiers russian soldiers have died. we're also hearing the generals has been killed. what do we know about russian losses and their effect on putin strategy? we don't know the exact numbers or thought losses. that was indeed remarkable that this figure was published and then quickly taken down again, there might be even more casualties. we simply do not know. but of course, that is a very sensitive issue and, and the koreans also report about high numbers of casualties on the russian side. and that means that's a very demoralizing bit of news to convey to your audiences at home. so that the, the issue is how long can you conceal that? and it's beginning to show that it cannot be concealed. and the more this kind of news travels, the more likely it is that the mood in russia could also change. kremlin watching is always a bit like reading tea leaves. nonetheless, we are also hearing that heads are beginning to roll within the security serv