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Ukrainian forces -- i was there many times since the beginning of the war, and small town, dozens of thousands of russian works on bakhmut and with absolutely no success. and i want to tell you yesterday i make a message that the offensive operation will start not within months or weeks or even days. we speaking now about hours. and when we launch this offensive operation, the plane is graded for that. we have not enough weapons, weapons is never enough, but we have sufficient amount of ammuniti...

Counteroffensive. the u.s. director of national intelligence avril haines, testified to congress today on that topic. take a listen. >> but even if ukraines counteroffensive is not fully successful, the russians are unlikely to be able to mount a significant offensive operation this year. in fact, if russia does not initiate a mandatory mobilization and secure substantial third-party ammunition supplies beyond existing deliveries from iran and others, it will be increasingly challenging for them...

He is the director of international security program at csis. and also is a former adviser to the commanding general of the american special operations forces in afghanistan. so says, that russian freight train that we saw today, blown up, that was an ied attack. weve seen a number of these sorts of attacks on russian infrastructure. just over these past few weeks. what do you read into that? >> well aaron, what it looks like is that the ukrainians are doing our targeting russian logistics hubs....

Seth jones, the director of international security program at csis and a former adviser of american special operation forces in afghanistan. seth, that russian freight train, that was an ied attack. weve seen these attacks on russian infrastructure over the past few weeks. what do you read into that? >> well, erin, what it looks like the ukrainians are doing is targeting russian logistic hubs. this is critical in general, but also critical before a major offensive operation. you want to destroy ...

One of the truisms of combat operations is that nothing happens as fast as you want until it starts happening a lot faster than you’d want. I think that is where we find ourselves 407 days into...

Just seems to me that as a former nato general, you feel a sense of urgency here because not long ago, you referred to a window of opportunity that is open, you said, for this coming year, 2023. but you suggested that if ukraine doesnt achieve significant, maybe decisive military victories in 2023, then that window of opportunity and, indeed, the resolve of europeans to keep arming and supporting ukraine, that may dwindle away. is that your concern? exactly. i believe that this year may be decis...

And when we consider how much time and resources does it take to prepare for a large offensive operation, i really dont see any opportunity for a second or third chance this year. next year, it will be more complicated because the support of ukraine will naturally fade out, not only... really? thats an extraordinary thing to say — "support for ukraine will naturally fade out". i mean, if vladimir putin is listening to us talking or happens to see it on the tv, that is something that he will be...

Coming year, 2023. but you suggested that if ukraine doesnt achieve significant, maybe decisive military victories in 2023, then that window of opportunity and, indeed, the resolve of europeans to keep arming and supporting ukraine, that may dwindle away. is that your concern? exactly, i believe that this year may be decisive for both sides because both russia and ukraine would most probably try to make a really big offensive, getting control over more and more ground. and when we consider how m...

Then that window of opportunity and, indeed, the resolve of europeans to keep arming and supporting ukraine, that may dwindle away. is that your concern? exactly, i believe that this year may be decisive for both sides because both russia and ukraine would most probably try to make a really big offensive, getting control over more and more ground. and when we consider how much time and resources does it take to prepare for a large offensive operation, i really dont see any opportunity for a seco...

Vladimir putin will impact whatever decision theyd made to this point? >> i think so, bianna, we may see something similar to the atacms shows up in the arsenal. what that means we will have a chance, or the ukrainians will have a chance to attack russian supply depots, russian ammo dumps, things like that, that could make it very difficult for the russians to proceed with a type of offensive operation against ukraine. >> colonel, let me stick with you. weve discussed over this last year the cha...