it is ordinary objects that are paying the price. this tree on out is there an exhibition in the heart of the ukrainian capital featuring russian military equipment that was captured and destroyed. hello, adrian, for the good in keith, ukrainian forces have limited wash and gains of a year of conflict despite moscow. superior, military awesome. and i'm darian obligation, endow hi, ukraine's military tactics backed by western support, have kept the war at a stalemate. but moscow still controls about one 5th of the country. you're watching our special week long coverage on al jazeera of the ukraine war, one year on. moscow has more soldiers, weapons aircraft on war ships, but has failed to secure a decisive advantage over cave. a rush has replaced its military leadership in ukraine, twice as it was forced to retreat from territory. it sees in the early days of the conflict and operating alongside the russian military is the mercenary wagner group . wagner's frontline row has laid bare internal tensions, its founder even a provision is accusing the military leadership of treason alleging their holding back ammunition. the defense ministry is denied limiting supplies to the front or ukrainian forces fought off russian assaults on the capital cave in the 1st few weeks at the conflict. and the west, led by the u. s. has scramble to expand military support heavily dipping into their own stockpiles and this war, martha turning point and use of combat drones for attacks as well as surveillance. private start ups as well as countries such as turkey and iran had become major suppliers. this fierce fighting around back moot in easton ukraine. a city that rush has been trying to seize for more than 6 months now. now moscow has intensified it's offensive, while keith says it's determined to hold its ground. both sides at describe the battle of a barcode as the bloodiest of a wall out as eras. charles stratford has been covering the front bite extensively over the past year. he joins us now from some michael square here in cave withers russian military vehicles around show such as we mentioned voc loot. it's just one of several contested battle funds right now. that's why there are multiple positions across that east in front line, where there is heavy fighting, going on. bombs, as you rightly said, is often described as being the most intense. this is somewhere that has been contested for months by both sides. we understand that sir casualties on both sides have been extreme as well. we also know that approximately 5000 civilians are still in side buff moot. and they are refusing office to be evacuated. the conditions that they are living under are absolutely atrocious. as you can imagine, it was only i suppose about a week ago now that ukrainian military actually stopped evacuees or sorry, evacuation teams, volunteers, and aids organizations from going into a home. there's only one road in to the town. now we know that that is coming under heavy shilling also according to our sources, the village to the south apartment village school. cuz she is taken was taken control of by austin's about a month ago and a similar story now to the north west of bar mote. at solid all was taken. we've heard today report certainly, according to the wagner group, they sang that they have taken a village called beckett basheba, which is to the north west of buck mood, russian falls. he's trying to surround that city. also big flash points around the town of lee man. now lee man is further north. the mock boat, it was a town ukrainian military took back control of in the late ultram. that hasn't been much movement in that area until quite recently. it seems as if the russians are trying another counter offenses. we've been looking at the situation on the battle front since the day of the invasion. and this is our report. on february, the 20 full 2022 was the 1st wave of russian troops crossed the border with russian missiles struck. it fast became clear that vladimir putin insistence that he would not invade ukraine at b ally. it was a multi pronged attack quotient forces crossed from better routes and advanced tools. keith, there was a similar push in the ne oh and in the east towards ukraine's 2nd city car cave. at the same time, mainly pro russia separate his forces attacked towns in ukrainian controlled areas of the next could lu ganske, ukrainian president, not yet in his trademark military fatigues, cold for help talk no more. i had a conversation with you as president joe biden. the u. s. is starting to gather international support in paul planning and brave ukrainian defense quickly scaffold putin's immediate plans to take give to the russian army columns was too bogged down and smashed work narrow that a whole wolf from the enemy pretty calculated their communications in logistic needs and their supply warehouses were across the border. this meant that after 2 days they were stopped without fuel, ammunition, and food, and they lost the effective management of their troops. on the 1st of april, ukraine announced it had recaptured the entire region around cave dead civilians. some with their hands bound behind their backs were discovered seemingly where they had been shot. russia was accused of war crimes, the russian army which ukrainian intelligence says had planned on taking control. keeping 3 days had suffered a historic and humiliating defeat. in may of the months of intense fighting in the polt city of marapoo, the last remaining of ukrainian fighters surrendered at the agile style steel plot . but ukraine by now was receiving what would become tens of billions of dollars worth of military aid. olsen counter offensive liberated tens of thousands of square kilometers, including the city of care song. portuguese occur after the preparations for the counter offensive started in april. by june when we had received western weapons, we were better able to head their supply lines, command centers, and weapons, and fuel depos. we could also attack the reserved troops as they approached the front line from what i'm. but since december, ukrainian gaines have slow to a virtual standstill. russia has made small advances in eastern dom bass, using what ukrainian forces say is wave after wave of infantry soldiers and mercenaries from the wagner group. some of the heaviest fighting continues around the town of buck moot. where many of the estimated $5000.00 civilians who remained there, refused to be evacuated. officials here and cave on their western allies, convinced that russia is about to launch what they describe as a spring offensive. more sophisticated weaponry, such as tanks, is on its way from nato countries, but with no end in sight to the fighting. many are asking just how long ukraine's allies could fund this war, despite their leaders saying, it is a fight for democracy. they cannot lose char stafford, i'll 0 heave while the us and it's nato allies of promise, dozens of tanks to ukraine at a racing replenish ammunition spent on the battlefield. our defense editor alex patropolis, explains how western military support has helped ukraine fight back. even before the war, ukraine was receiving weapons from the west, a trickle of high take arms, turning into a flood. when russia invaded 2 weapons types immediately stood out as having a significant effect on the battlefield. powerful handheld and to tank missiles by the u. s. made javelin, gave otherwise lightly armed ukrainian infantry. the ability to destroy russian tanks. as russia found out the hard way an arm, drones like the turkish made barrack t r t b to helped ukraine spot russian army columns a long way off, sending vital information back to ukrainian command posts, allowing them to guide long range artillery fire on to the targets and where possible destroy high value targets of their own, like radar sites and command posts. in later months, a to re became important as both sides sought to grade each of the down in the don bass. nato countries, port houses, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition into free slowing brushes. advances down to the snow. the arrival of long range precision far like the high mobility artillery rocket system. why mars allowed ukraine to strike ammunition dumps of fuel storage sites? far behind the front lines, staffing brushes, military vital supplies for most of the war. so far ukraine had leveraged ela musk stalling satellite internet constellation, not only keeping commanders informed, but guiding drones to their targets in real time. however, styling has since been ukraine from using the system for what it calls offensive actions. air defense has played a key role in protecting ukraine's energy infrastructure weapons like the national advance surface to air missile system or not. sams had been vital for ukraine's defense with you as patrick batteries on the way for ukraine to go on the offensive . it's military will have to leverage the use of powerful main battle tanks from the west. let you case, challenge a to and german is leopard to which will be used to punch holes in russian defensive lines. the arrival of advanced infantry fighting vehicles let the u. s. bradley will help you craning assault troops crossing the wide open spaces of the southern ukrainian countryside state protected as the going to action alex could topless out a 0 will ukrainian forces are being trained to years leopard 2 tanks in neighboring poland or to 0 to whole of also from to show on how poland has become an outspoken voice, pushing the european union of may so to rapidly expire him support to keith lessons in how to operate. a german made leopard to tank ukrainian tank crews have come to poland from the battlefields of don. that's going to ask, preparing for the hand over of dozens of these much needed upgrades or their own failings, soviet era fleets. and they've done a shot the moment we have very short of the vehicle. and i hope that when we get to the front line with this equipment, it will save a lot of lives of our soldiers and bring us closer to victory. heard and has been at the forefront of efforts to better om, ukraine's military, with vast quantities of hardware and munitions donated by day 2 countries, funneled across polish territory. much of it via this us army base in the town of close to the border with ukraine out here in east and poland. the signs of the marshalling of military aid for ukraine, a clear you can literally see them from the main road, rows of patriot surface to miss out systems. guarding what is now a crucial hub. and poland has been among the most vocal of ukraine's allies, calling for stronger support among those lobbying hardest, his former polish foreign minister ready slab. sikowski, who says, allies must now go even further. we are in our right to do whatever it takes to help you crane defend itself, and ukraine needs tax, it needs antea, craft pencils and it needs jeff. and there's very good reason why he cares. geography methods, you know, poland is actually the only country in nature and the european union that has both ukraine and russia as a neighbor. so you might say doubly a front line states. these are lessons in how to take on the russians. if all else fails. many polls believe that ukraine is fighting russia, so they don't have to. but just in case the polish army offers basic training to civilian from the german. well, i think it's worth every citizen knowing how these things work. in case something happens on the fact that definitely in the back of your head, there's always the fear that something might happen. i have a lot of colleagues from ukraine and the situation on the eastern border is worrying. this is a country that feels the proximity of ukraine's war more than most. it's be more generous than most in support. perhaps because many feel it has more to lose than most jona whole al jazeera jess of poland. well, joining me now is andre, as i got old new york, who was ukraine's defense minister from 2019 to 2020 and is now an advisor to the government. good, heavy with gsa others you let put to tanks and rockets. but you've been promised enough to make a difference on the battlefield, or they go to arrive in time, the counter, any spring offensive, all to be part of ukraine's own spring tactical clamps while that's what we expect . and that's what we hope for. but so the question is that each country at different logistical arrangements and our job was to make sure that they are hiring off as much as they can if they're going to be delaying then yes, then we have them, we have a problem because basically will get us to the summertime and then you know, so that's why we, we will asking our partners to speed up as much as they can say you're asking your partners, but you need what? 300 or so yeah. tanks in order to take back territory and you need them fast. i mean, do you have faith in your allies ability? i'm perhaps that willingness to follow through all this promise. yeah, we do have a face. we have we believe that they have ability. question is how, how quickly they can do that. the timing is basic and our only concern sofa. okay. what else do you need? we talked about rockets about tanks. you, you need your cooling foot from foot airplanes as well. yes. fugit we talking about fighter jets, of course it basically this whole war is about long range fire power. so we need fighter jets in order to deliver that 5 our to as, as fast as we can and counter are russian positions. and it will so talking about the multiple look at launches rockets, which would work for 150 kilometers. us have developed them together with sweden and it's called a g l as d b. and so ground lie small diameter bomb which works for foreign 50 kilometers. has been a political decision to provide it again question i was only about timing. i will make a substantial difference. do you think that the allies will follow through on it? i mean they, they do a lot of talking and they've made these promises within that they seem not to be able to deliver on time when it must be pretty frustrating for you when we have seen. of course, there's been concerns about timing. we have seen that to whatever they promised, usually they delivered. so question only about them not to delay things. and of course the tanks are very difficult machines. i mean they're very complex. there's any technical support they need spares and so on. are providing those in time that's also critical because sir capabilities not just a piece of equipment at some point of time, this actually, you know, a technical support as well. so yeah, that's, that's, that is complex, but we believe we can resolve that many thanks to you, i'm afraid we're going to leave it up. thank you. okay. yep, that's it for now. thank you. all right, so i'll get cut, former defense, minnesota advisor to the government here and key of now among the ukrainians on the front lines of an increasing number of women. was noise. that way i met a young mother who served as a sly pub. i was the only woman in her uniform. i was to just go in the beginning, they were a bit uncertain because here in ukraine it's not normal to have a woman in the army. and so when i joined up, i understood that i needed to prove myself that i could be the equal. and after a month that accepted me, the ukrainian army doesn't have uniform for women. does it? how does a woman quote on the front line? oh no, i was on the front line from the beginning. if the full scale invasion i was given a means uniform. i just did it myself. i found a so in shop and one town that was under occupation and they helped me. but we don't have that problem anymore, but in ukraine than our manufacturing women's uniforms. recently i donated 412 uniforms to women who is serving on the front line to right now, the girls are more lucky than i was back then. and how did your family feel about you going to fight? you already have an 11 year old daughter. right. and how did it feel for you leaving her in the beginning it was really important to make sure my daughter was safe. and so i did that 1st when it started at 5 in the morning. i organized for her to be taken to western ukraine and into poland. i didn't see her for a long time. it was very hard. obviously, that was the best thing to do at that time. my mom and my close friends were shocked when i said i was going to the front that i was going to fight. i will never forget their faces when i told them i was going to war. my mom looked at me and i said everything will be okay. i'll meet a man there, i'll get married. everything will be all right. and that happened the recently or not of a frontline i was because as we can see, you're expecting your baby. you read your husband on the phone lines. tell me robert. ah yes. i don't know. imagine i didn't meet the love of my life when i was a civilian. i made him on the front line. we made online actually on social media. at that time, i was quite famous in ukraine. there were a few articles written about me, so he saw them and messaged me. he said that he was very proud of a woman like me. he's a soldier as well, who was serving in a different region and a different division. so the war brought us together and soon i'll baby will be born. when the baby is born, would you consider going, going back to fight? hi it's but i hope that by that time the war will we other. however, as yo to say it in style was, the future is foggy. we'll see what will happen if necessary. i'll go, however, right now i have a maternal instinct and i know that i'm more useful here at home than on the front line. i'm still filling my civic duties. i'm doing volunteer work. i'm 34 weeks pregnant and i still haven't had erased when i give birth, goofy. why? as a woman? is it so important to you to be part of this of this price will be minimized. it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman or how much money you have. if you want to and you're able to defend your country, you should do it. well, drones have become an important part of ukraine's arsenal, often enabling it to outmaneuver a much larger rushing military. more on that now from study? indo. yes, adrian. well, russia responded by turning to iran for low cost drones. some of them have slipped past ukraine's defenses or defense editor alex, good topple us, explains ah, versus massive missile infantry is running seriously low. a year of high intensity conflict has all been exhausted stalks as it launch missiles strike off to missile strike when ukraine's per structure and high value military targets. to replace his depleted stalks, moscow's turned to one of its few friends round who agreed to export massive amounts of it. shower head, 136, trone, cheap, inaccurate. the shower head is launched and salvos. technically, a drone has been used by russia as a cruise missile. it can fly hundreds of kilometers and as a native kilogram warhead. in return for this help, rush has agreed to give iran 24, which had fog, so coin su, 35 fighter jets, which will make a valuable addition to iran's antiquated air force. rush a shout, it's targets for these tools. soon, low flying. many of each shot down, but enough get through to cause significant damage to ukraine's past structure weaponized in the cold and plunging many parts of the country into darkness. alex could topless al jazeera, now the central role played by the wagner mercenary group and the assault on eastern ukraine has exposed tensions with regular russian forces. osama bin javin is joining us from moscow. so what are we to make of the tensions between the wagner group and the russian forces the sama. well, it has been the tip of the spear, so to speak, in the eastern parts of ukraine, where it has been taking territory gradually, taking a lot of casualties and been providing the cover that the russian military needed to carry out these operations. but in the last few days,