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Plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. President trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. But whos calling who . Keir simmons in new york, Kristen Welker at the white house. Big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but its the meeting thats not happening thats grabbing all the headlines, right . Thats right. That meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after President Trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for t...

Withdrew from the areas around buck mood? —— 10 one. once they were pulled out by prigozhin, other units went in, i monitored it closely. some of these units are not trained well at all, some of the recruits are trained forjust one month. however, there is so many of them that they were successfully resisting the ukrainian counteroffensive. the defence lines that are built from the mine fields, barbed wire and poured concrete are holding back the ukrainian counteroffensive, unfortunately for...

Minister saying the country has the most mines and trap explosives in the world. and tonight we have exclusive access to the team finding those mines. nick paton walsh is "out front" on the front lines. >> reporter: the fires still smolder at dusk. moving to the front, ukraines counteroffensive. a few hours ago, intense bombardment around this area. and now is sun is setting, as the occasional round being fired. most of it seems to be towards russian positions. were here to learn of a new tactic...

And western officials that weve been speaking to agree it is the slowness with which they were able to start it. remember it was called the spring counteroffensive and they didnt manage to really get things under way until early june. president zelenskyy has since said that is because they were waiting for stocks of weapons to arrive until they reached that sort of critical mass. it is the russian defenses because during that time russia was able to really bed in with these mine fields,s like th...

Ukraines targeting thats a problem for moscow. they want to destroy supply routes just before they do something to be sure it has the maximum chaotic impact. and another sign of ukraines reach after days in which weve seen supply of fuel, oil tankers, amphibious assault ships and a bridge itself to the russian mainland all targeted by ukrainian drones. >> and now ukrainians are training italians to deal with the density of russian mine fields. in what way? . >> reporter: this has been one of the...

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Starting to clear those mine fields. its a difficult process and they hope that will help them speed things up. >> big obstacles, for sure. fred pleitgen, thank you so much. coming up, u.p.s. and the teamster head back to the negotiating table, hoping to avoid a massive strike within just days until the deadline to reach a deal. thats next. let it pull you past the doubt. past the pain, and past your limits. no matter what, we go on. biofreeze the morgan stanley client experience? listening mo...

Theres a lot of reporting about the extensive mining operations that russia has conducted. >> yeah. we lost a lot of time. by "we," i mean both ukraine and its partners. we lost a lot of time preparing counteroffensive and making decisions on deliveries of weapons and delivering these weapons necessary for the counteroffensive because it allowed russia to physically reforce its defense lines, mine fields. im not complaining here. im just stating the reality because in the end its us and our part...

Their armor and artillery, but it really positions the ukrainians as having to fight through some of the toughest terrain, and weve seen a lot of the mine fields, the armor -- the dragons teeth and barriers for the tanks to move in. its been very difficult, so the longer that drags on, the more the humanitarian crisis ratchets, and this is why its important for folks that care about this for both the diplomats to be looking for off-ramps. how do we encourage the settlement of a negotiated cease-...

The so-called land bridge linking the donbas to crimea, to the other areas that russia has seized. whats interesting about the offensive as its unfolding is that it is a long multiple axes and because the ukraines finally have the ability to move back and forth, theyre probing, testing, seeing where the russians are weak, the idea that if they find a weakness they can move in and exploit t move fast and hard. the progress in this first day was described to me as better than expected. at some spo...