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Forces have been, basically, stranded, have not been making any advances at all. all they can do is fire dumb bombs from russia and blow up apartment buildings. now, reports breaking in the "wall street journal" and also from our own richard engel on the ground that ukrainian counteroffensive has begun. >> yeah. it appears they have blown up a facility russians were using to launch helicopter attacks, as well. so this is quite the backdrop for president zelenskyy's speech here. certainly, the russians have just been bombarding these cities with these bombs. sort of destroying them, committing ...

Of false flag operation out of russia from the beginning. you are right, you see the video of the helicopter attacks, the reports are coming from russia state media citing the governor. russia officials are not confirming this, they are concerned this is pretext or provocation russia could use to escalate the assault on ukraine. we are treating this obviously carefully, digging hard into it, so far there is no confirmation from anyone other than russian sources as to this attack showing helicopter gun ships attack whatting is fuel depot with the building burning at night. todd. >> ashley: than...

Through. so these women really were keeping up with the men. what is the most challenging part of all of this? we're looking at pictures of the pushups and situps and they had to do parachute drops and get through helicopter attacks and so forth. >> that's true. 3% of the entire army has a ranger tab. this is something that is a real test and i think a lot of people wanted to show that they could do the 100 days or 62 days of tests. i think the hardest part is actually the mountain phase. a lot of students who have gone through it would say the biggest issue is endurance. because by day 62, if...

Many people as it can. the u.s. strategy has been to assist the african forces and u.s. troops navy seal commandos, drone attacks, helicopter attacks over the last couple of years have gone into somalia on several occasions to try and get to the al-shabaab leadership. they have had a mixed track record on this because they are very well dug in very difficult to find. so is the strategy really going to change? probably not. the u.s. doesn't have a lot of intelligence on the ground. but nobody is dismissing the al-shabaab as a threat. one of the biggest concerns if they flourish there, they can ...

Government says in the next few days they believe they can have pushed out all of isis. they haven't had any help from the u.s. but they have had some air strikes helicopter attacks from the iraqi army which helped them push out. they've heard some the isis fighters have fled the area. this is a difficult city to take. the road leading to mosul, one of the cities that they hope to take also later this year. >> it's going to be a push to try and get mosul back as well. you mentioned no help from the united states. the shia militia, of course have done a lot of the heavy lifting in term of tryin...