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How the dominant media narrative over the course of this war has changing since the full scale invasion.

Ukraine's counteroffensive is bloody and slow, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces have crossed the first line of Russian defense, US Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, General Mark Milley said in an interview with Al-Mamlaka channel on Aug. 25.

Exist anymore. >> but you would be president of the united states. not president of ukraine. >> of course. >> ukraine is a client state of the united states because we are paying their government employees. >> president zelenskyy would not necessarily agree with what you would say about the lines -- >> i have two things to say on that. i think when the u.s. stops funding ukraine, that settles exactly where that goes. but i also think this would be a better deal for our ukraine because it comes o...

Face. that is what we actually need to remember and everybody in that foreign policy establishment, you saw it for mike pence today to have to remind him that the ussr does not exist anymore. >> the president of the united states, not. ukraine >> ukraine is a client state of the united states. >> president zelenskyy would not agree to what you would say about the lines and banners. >> two things to say on. when the u.s. starts funding ukraine, that settles where that goes. but i think this would...

Ukraine's Defense Ministry says it is skeptical of U.S. intelligence assessments that Ukraine’s counter-offensive will fail to reach Melitopol and cut off Russian land bridge to the occupied Crimea, Defense Ministry official Oleksii Kopytko said on Facebook on Aug. 18.

>> only a few of them have done that. cnn has learned that top u.s. officials fear vladimir putin is waiting out the 2024 election hoping that if president biden loses, the u.s. will scale back its support for ukraine. as trumps former national security adviser, does that disturb you? >> well, it worries me because of what trump has said about ukraine and frankly what he said about nato. but i think putins strategy is a little bit different. i think he wants to see if the ukrainians spring offen...

They will make gains. president zelenskyy saying that this was supposed to be a spring offensive, but at the time they didnt have enough equipment, enough ammunition and enough training. so because this was delayed, the russians were able to build up their defenses, lay those mines and prepare. zelenskyy saying that they didnt want to rush into the battle and lose moen. >> alex, some fantastic reporting there. thank you so much. the special counsel investigating donald trumps alleged attempts ...

That spring offensive was raine ane such a,ive was you know, incredible, you know, push against by china, finding a creditor to fund this war in ukraine. we do not have enough munitions. we are out hav ammunition. so now were sending cluster munitions. then you have a woke militar cly that is pushing away the very people who fight and die in our warsdi to keep us safe. and youre doing all of this at the same time as you thi are causing world war three. we are the closest that we have been to the...

Afraid of ukraine victory and dont be afraid of the russia defeat. and the ukrainian membership in nato, this is the ukrainian victory, nato victory and defeat of putin. >> president poroshenko, we know of assurances both security along with, of course, those cluster munitions promised by the u.s. president. we also have assurances from 11 separate countries in training f-16 fighter jet pilots. with all of that in mind, and the success so far of the spring offensive, what seems as if spring into...

Know, at some point theyre going to need to figure out how to bring this war to an end because it was looking like it would end up in a stalemate and a lot of people in the administration were predicting whats happening with the spring offensive. so it shouldnt be a surprise that theyre not going to wave this red flag in front of us russia at this point as theyre trying to end the war. and also, there are, if you talked to leaders in the eu, they say yes, we want ukraine in, but they have to mee...