sarah flanders, k director of the international action center many thanks for your time. really appreciate your insight. thank you for to ukraine now. 1200 of kias troops have been killed and have failed offensive in the countries south. according to russia's defense ministry, moscow say the ukrainians also lost $48.00 tanks and almost a 100 other armored vehicles after trying to advance on 3 fronts at once. and being beaten back by the russian military. the bulged offensive is said to have been ordered by president zalinski and came amid intensified ukrainian shelling of civilian infrastructure and southern regions which are controlled by russia. one of the latest attacks has a key bridge in their kirsten region. this unverified amateur footage appears to show the immediate aftermath of the bombing. the bridge is mainly used by civilians . local authorities of set up an alternative pontoon bridge to help people across. but it's been also been showered by ukraine's army and in the neighboring zap rosier region, local rush and back to authority. say ukraine has once again

sarah flanders, not co director of the international action center. many thanks for joining us on the program. it's lovely to see now which of pairing kent mcclellan and known as bone phase because of his tattoos. he said it was the cia that sent him to ukraine when he joined the neo nazi as of battalion. what do you make of this claim? well, i think it's absolutely true, and it's not even a secret. the u. s. has openly sent mercenary forces. the dogs of war, however, you want to call it nazi forces into the ukraine since 2014. and earlier, they played a real role in the my don coo and since i'm in large numbers. and this is something that president lensky himself, has bragged about the number of foreign volunteers, special websites, created special payments. these are free entry was to come and get training and, and go back and, and this is true. courses have come from throughout scandinavia, germany, the us of course of britain, georgia, romania, you could go on and on and they are publicly encouraged to come to the ukraine. 1000 thousands of mercen