russian forces, ukraine s top generals say yesterday, the plan was to bolster the city rather than retreat. the city is weakening. now, ukraine will try to stall russian forces through the battle of attrition before a planned down attack. meanwhile, china s foreign minister is defending possible military support for russia suggesting the united states is being hypocritical. the accusations stem from the military aid the u.s. provides to taiwan, which china does not recognize as a sovereign nation. the foreign minister did deny china has provided any weapons to the russian army. u.s. officials have been warning for weeks now that intelligence gained from russian officials indicates china is considering arming russian forces in joining us now, richard haass, the author of the new book titled the bill of obligations, the ten habits of good citizens. not just a book but a best
and i think that s extremely important. and i think you also see a really clear understanding of what democracy is all about. and that was very evident by president biden s visit. he was my best supporter when i was in nato. he really speaks clearly from the mind and the heart. you saw that on this visit. so now we move into year two and president biden says the west will not blink. he promises to keep this coalition together. that includes military assistance, other assistance to ukraine. what do you think is critical on the battlefield so thatter we are not here a year from now talking about moving into year three of this war. in ta context, this is new cnn reporting on the united states pushing ukraine to alter its battlefield tactics. the hope is ukraine can use its weapons to transition away from the sort of battle of attrition that s dominated the fighting to
so thinking through what we ve seen in the last year, just some key points to look at. one, just look at the devastation that s happened. this is some agricultural warehouses we ve been talking about food, supplies, it s very tough for the ukrainians at this point. separately the toll it s taken on cities like dnipro where we ve seen missile strikes hit civilian complexes. that really speaks to the overwhelming damage that s been done and harm done to the people of ukraine. this is the mariupol cemetery. you remember the steel factory which was under barrage, under siege from the russians. that entire city is nearly troid. look forward now, later in 2022, the deaths and casualties, the suffering of the ukrainian people, and i think that speaks to encompassing the total damage done to the war. ukraine what they re focused on now is trying to keep their country going, keep their infrastructure going, keep their soldiers on the battlefield. that is where the war is going to go. it s reall
ukraine has the offensive is going to fail pushing russia out of much of the territory sometime next year. the others school is it s going to be a battle of attrition, stalemate, just like it has been for the last few months, what do you think? the first of all let s just say outright the administration and others keep talking about the fact russia has strategically lost. the fact is a russia has not given up on a strategic objective process to control and dominate ukraine. use ukraine to move on mulled over. also to encroach on nato. putin has made up his mind that he is going to stick with this. he is going into a wartime economy. he is industrializing his base beyond the defense industry. is doing continuous mobilization for it he in this for the long haul. what i think is happening is the
get to her grave site. police tried to stop them, but they were unsuccessful. throughout tehran, there were protests across the city and that s a tactic that the demonstrators have employed to make it harder for the security forces to round them up en masse. they scatter themselves throughout the city. in the capital, there were fires on the streets and other cities in the west, the east and in the south. there was a resurgence of protests. this uprising is turning into a battle of attrition between protestors and police. the longer it goes on for, the harder it becomes for the islamic republic to deal with them. for the foreseeable future, there is going to be turmoil in iran. ali arouzi in tehran, thank you so much. campaigns are racing around the clock to reach voters in every single demographic.