A Ukrainian military doctor has become engaged to a soldier she served with a day after she was released from nearly two years of captivity in Russia, their commander said on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited eight combat brigades in the Donetsk Operational and Tactical Grouping on Monday, 4 September. Source: Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram; Ukrainian President's Office Details: Zelenskyy visited the 109th Separate Territorial Defence Brigade, 110th Separate Mechanised Brigade, 36th Separate Marine Brigade, 59th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade, 53rd Separate Mechanised Brigade, 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade, 37th Separate Marine Brigade, and 38
deployed, and the remainder have been cobbled together. you have a number of losses in each one of these battalion forces and then they try to bring a bunch of folks that have never trained together, never worked together, there is no readiness that s really associated with those numbers. so you might want to talk about the numbers, but they don t have the readiness level in order to be effective. so certainly russia needs to learn, they need to adapt, but i don t think we re going to see the lessons being applied into this fight. james spider marks, always a pleasure to see you. thank you, john. mariupol is the symbolic center of ukrainian resistance against the russian invasion and the azovstal steel plant where ukrainian military and civilians are holed up by the hundreds is the site of the last stand there. we got rare access to the military perspective inside of that steel plant, posing questions earlier to the commander of ukraine s 36th separate marine brigade. here is wha
hundreds are still dying from covid every day. so should americans keep masking up? mandate or not? you re going to hear president biden s answer to that ahead. but first let s turn back to this last stand of sorts for mariupol. jim, what else do we know about how long ukrainian forces can really hold up and hold on to that steel plant? you know, the steel plant has become an unlikely lifeboat for these people here. and it is soldiers, the last defenders of this city, but it s civilians, perhaps 1,000 civilians. and we ve seen pictures of them there. taking refuge in the basement of the steel plant. women and children. they re running out of food. so the commander of ukraine s 36th separate marine brigade, who is hunkering down there as well, he warned today russian forces are advancing, they are bombing and they don t have much time left. have a listen.