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Ability to maneuver. theyre having difficulty maneuvering because ukrainians have knocked out and destroyed the bridges that could resupply the russians or allow them to escape. russians are at a sdisadvantage. theyre starting to neutralize the artillery fire. an theyre conducting a maneuver to get to the enemy. theres a lot of russians in the southern approach. this is not a strategic maneuver. they continue to be shaping operations. i hate to do that to your listeners but theres a little diffe...

What more have you learned? >> it looks like, john, were seeing the first steps of it, the first ground steps of this counteroffensive in the last 24 hours. over the weekend, we were seeing, as we reported, the shaping exercises. it affects striking targets to prepare the battlefield for the ground offensive. throughout today, we saw ukrainian forces take four villages, this around the area of kherson. and now these attacks you just mentioned there. you start with the shaping operation, soften u...

Major offensive. you look at it differently. as we just heard, the stress there is that this is going to be a bit of a long slog. people need to be patient. how would you characterize what were seeing? >> i dont call it a counteroffensive, like so many others are doing. by precise definition, a counteroffensive is a large-scale strategic military operation, that has halted the enemys ability to conduct an attack. ukraine has not done that yet. what has been reported by president zelenskyy and me...

Warfare is already happening. can you talk about that? and what a counteroffensive look like from the ukrainian side. >> so in u.s. terms, this would be the shaping operations. the next stage is a major combat operation. in the shaping operation, theyre looking to degrade the command and control of the ukrainian armed forces, to frankly be as disruptive as possible with regards to emergency responders and crisis planning, telecommunications will be knocked out, either through cyberoperations or ...

With reality, and nothing to do with the troops. and the biden administration knows this. unfortunately i think that you are giving them a free pass when you say that it is down to be the reality or incompetence or anything like that. they know exactly what they are doing. this is called a shaping operation. this is setting the stage to legitimize that the taliban as a recognized government internationally, which will elevate islamic terrorists with unprecedented power. this is the way that they...

Announcing a counter offensive against the terrorist group. and the campaign will enclude new weapons. and the planned focus on driving the terrorist out of anbar province and the announcement comes as we learn about the intelligence bulletin. catherine has more on that. jennifer griffin is live in the pentagon with more on the military campaign with more jennifer? >> reporter: just days after the fall of ramadi. shiite coalition forces are leading the fight to take the fight on theanbar provinc...

That some of the fighters will put down the arms and turn to the afghan government. >> we think that the shaping operation, that ran for some eight weeks leading up to this operation was very effective in terms of getting after some of the leadership and also some of those who might otherwise have fought. >> reporter: as the sun was setting, the fight continued. lasting for nearly two hours. testament to an enemy that hasnt gone away. atia abawi, cnn, marjah, helmand province, afghanistan. we ...