the kharkiv operation failed, putin's operation. we managed to stop them. then he wanted to occupy kyiv almost three years ago. here he wanted to start with the north again and get to another city. then we were forced to deliver a preventative blow on the kursk axis and created a buffer zone between russian forces and our city which is why it is under our control. there are no russian and north korean troops in the north. they are pulled to the kursk axis. in the east we have a difficult situation. there is the biggest quantity of russian forces. they are pushing on a daily basis. we had a big problem with at first the delay for support. supply was low and supplies were on the go. yes, our guys are fighting, everything is uneasy there on the other axises, the russians have failed. mr. brende: what is the strategy? translator: the strategy is, we must approach any sort of diplomacy that will lead to the end of the war. the issue is, what does diplomacy look like? if it is strong and ukraine has strong security guarantees to prevent putin from coming back wit

to the fighting in the risk andmantha's forces have captured a large village in ukraine's eastern kharkivt has now changed hands three times during the conflict. i was correspondent orla guerin met a woman who lost her mother, daughter, and grandson on the same day in november. here is her story. orla: russia's war has taken almost everything from yulia. her mother. her daughter. her grandson. "my little kitten," she says. all three were here at home last november, where they should have been safe. then russia attacked. just at that moment, a bomb fell. it flew into the house and exploded. right there. so in one moment, we lost almost the whole family. i lost my mother, my daughter, and grandson in one second. now, i don't know how to live. i can't see the point in living. this is her grandson, filmed by his great-grandmother, tatiana. one hour later, they were both scared. along with his mother, sofia, three generations gone. when the war started, sophiia made it to safety in the u.k.. she missed her parents and her country. after coming back home, she gave birth to her sun, who love the

that is leen al zinati. in ukraine's eastern kharkiv region. during the conflict.r the rubble, torn by shrapnel. touch and hold. all they have left of him. along with one of his favourite toys. now a family treasure. nine civilians were killed here in all. ukraine must fight on. they say it should not talk they say it should not talk peace. so many of our people have already died. that is no longer possible. if the enemy is on our territory, the only contact we can have with them is combat territory. and i will spend a lot of time with people i whom i love, but i won't. yuliia and sergey come here often to feel close to those they lost. they know life goes on elsewhere, but they ask and we can you pictures coming into from and we can you pictures ci is ing into from and we can you pictures ci is the nto from and we can you pictures ci is the coast from ease. this is the lc-eest read e : .- : --.. eee which most palestinians moving as part t moving as part of the deal with ceasefire deal agreed with israel, in vehicles but israel, some in vehicles but of them on foo

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and then ukraine launched two limited counteroffensives which was successful in kan in kharkiv and they were successful. and then over the winter, they tried to build their force with us. and european help to conduct a large counteroffensive in the spring that did not achieve its objectives. so you have, you're back at that stalemate. but i would tell you that the ukrainian people fought an extraordinary fight and are still fighting an extraordinary fight. their resources are not unlimited. and the russian military, i think they're a learning organization. you've shifted now into this. a lot of drone war and a lot of other capabilities of being introduced. but the russian military, i don't think they were, were overestimated per se. i think that they executed their operations as we thought they would and the ukrainians beat them on the battlefield. and i think a couple of things that did surprise me, one was the russian air force. so the russian air force did not perform the way i thought they were going to perform. and that's because again, the ukrainians, the ukrainian air defense was

in the region around kharkiv. owner, russian oligarch roman abramovich, benefited