joining me tonight is a ukrainian journalist and the former salesperson for president zelenskyy, yulia mendelulia, first of all, welcome. but you heard the person just speaking and talking about the idea of whether a turnaround was the right terminology to use. what do you make of these successes we're hearing about now, particularly given the context of where we have been over more than six months. >> well, thank you for having me. and of course, the recent developments are a celebration for all ukrainians. because we have almost returned all the kharkiv region, which is the northeastern region, and we are advancing to donbas. except this, we saw that there are already settlements that are liberated at my home region, which is in the south of ukraine, which is the kherson region. so, of course, ukrainians are celebrating, but it doesn't mean that the war is over. and the recent information that came from the vice prime minister of ukraine that is responsible for integration in ukraine says that there were already attempts from a russian leadership official and non-official, after this counte

let's bring in yulia mendell, author of "the fight of our lives, my time with zelenskyy, ukraine's battleworld." thank you so much for being here. let's talk about this fight because it dufeel like the momentum is with the ukrainians. taking back from what i understand more territory than russia has taken in the last 200 days. what's behind -- what do you think is behind this change in momentum? is it failure on the russian side, a failure of will on their side, or triumph of will on the ukrainian side? >> first, let me say that we have retaken more territories that russia captured since april. this is a little bit different. and still it's ukrainian territories that we are taking back, and this is a huge celebration for ukrainians. but there are multiple reasons why russians are being defeated right now. and first of all, they do not have any motivation for this war. for you to know the ukrainian general staff now claims that around 53,000 of russian servicemen were, as they say, eliminated in this terrible russian invasion. this is a huge number, even for such a large army as russian ar

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