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Rejected a peace plan and then he went on to say as he has been, since the beginning of this war that russia is fighting against neo-. president putin also weighed, in in the ongoing counteroffensive in ukraine. he argued that ukraine has suffered significant, losses both in terms of man power and equipment. here is a little bit more of what he had to say. >> [interpreter] there are no major changes, i think it's connected to the fact that the enemy pulled back its assault units, so they could recover their combat capability. they have suffered heavy losses. >> the >> reporter: ukraine now say...

Ukraine said Russia's Storm Z troops — a mix of conscripts, reservists, and convicts — had low combat capability and were alcoholics and deserters.

No one agreed to sign a contract with the defense ministry since everyone knows very well from the current situation and their experience during special military operation that this will lead to complete loss of combat capability. >> reporter: it is remarkable that putin is continuing to allow prigozhin to get this kind of message out because prigozhin is continuing to claim that sergei shoigu, not by name, russia's defense minister, is not fighting the war well, is costing russia lives. we know because the big and popular reception prigozhin got on the streets in rostov-on-don on the weekend,...

Group sort of as the ss of russia, as the ss was sort of a private militia beholden to hitler. the wagner is sort of the same thing to putin. maybe without all the ideological. it is not particularly all that effective when you integrate these convicts into it. it was a very small group that did operations in syria and elsewhere, and it brought some combat capability into the ukraine war, but it's taking large casualties, and it's really hard to replace those. so i'm not sure that wagner group is going to be all that useful once it's been killed off in the battles that are raging now around ba...

United states making a commitment, demonstrating its commitment to ukraine for the long-term, combined with the near-term capabilities that some of our allies and partners are providing like the leopards and the challenger tanks, and the str strykers and bradleys as well. that's combat capability for ukraine. >> wasn't all that true last week when the u.s. said it would not be sending the m1s and only after germany said, well, we're not going to send these leopards or allow any of the countries to which we've sold these german-made tanks to release theirs unless the u.s. does it first. is ther...