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The Ukrainian military has sustained enormous losses since the beginning of its botched counteroffensive, raising questions about its ability to continue advancing, security expert Michael Maloof told Sputnik.

Fierce fighting rages in southeastern Ukraine as Kyiv launches major push and Putin claims hostilities intensify.

Crimea. we spoke to the general in charge of that offensive, the south, and he said it is hard going. we found when we went to the front lines, it is hard going with ukrainian forces trying to break through. breakthrough well prepared russian defences and minefields. hidden in a forest, evidence of ukraines stuttering offensive in the south. a makeshift repair yard trying to salvage not old soviet equipment, but recently donated western armour. these us—made bradleys may have saved lives, but ...

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Are proving difficult to breach. ukrainian forces have taken ground, but the going is tough. from ukraine, our defence correspondentjonathan beale has the latest. hidden in a forest, evidence of ukraines stuttering offensive in the south. a makeshift repair yard trying to salvage not old soviet equipment, but recently donated western armour. these us made bradleys may have saved lives, but they have also been damaged by what is slowing them down. russian minefields. sergei says some cant be repa...

A makeshift repair yard trying to salvage not old soviet equipment, but recently donated western armour. these us—made bradleys may have saved lives, but they have also been damaged by what is slowing them down. russian minefields. sergei says some cant be repaired so they will scavenge the parts. this was the same brigade in the first days of the offensive, especially trained and equipped by the west to break through defences. instead, they became an easy target and fodder for russian propaga...

NATO generals should have foreseen that the Ukrainian counteroffensive would fail, according to Larry Johnson, a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism.

We are having to be really careful where you walk here. a lot of russian mines left behind and in the fields along the front lines, vast acres of russian minefields, and its because of those mines, ukrainians say, that they are struggling to make the kind of strategic breakthrough they need to in order to change the course of this war. a ukrainian engineer shows some of the russian devices he has disarmed. both sides are accused of using banned antipersonnel mines. in his bunker, a ukrainian com...

Lost a leg each this week." grim drone footage of a ukrainian unit trapped in a russian minefield. medics already treating several wounded men. then, this soldier steps on another mine but, somehow, clambers to safety. we are having to be very careful where you walk here. a lot of russian mines left behind and in the fields along the front lines, vast acres of russian minefields. and its because of those mines, ukrainians say, that they are struggling to make the kind of strategic breakthrough t...

Move in cautiously to defuse it. "detonate it," he says, "and youre talking about 30 or 40 casualties." "there are mines everywhere," says dimitro. "they scare me more than anything else. "two of our most experienced men lost a leg each this week." grim drone footage of a ukrainian unit trapped in a russian minefield. medics already treating several wounded men. then, this soldier steps on another mine but, somehow, clambers to safety. we are having to be very careful where you walk here. a lot ...