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Ukrainian forces -- i was there many times since the beginning of the war, and small town, dozens of thousands of russian works on bakhmut and with absolutely no success. and i want to tell you yesterday i make a message that the offensive operation will start not within months or weeks or even days. we speaking now about hours. and when we launch this offensive operation, the plane is graded for that. we have not enough weapons, weapons is never enough, but we have sufficient amount of ammunition to launch the offensive operation. and would definitely be lower -- >> and mr. president, the uk ...

Counteroffensive. the u.s. director of national intelligence avril haines, testified to congress today on that topic. take a listen. >> but even if ukraine's counteroffensive is not fully successful, the russians are unlikely to be able to mount a significant offensive operation this year. in fact, if russia does not initiate a mandatory mobilization and secure substantial third-party ammunition supplies beyond existing deliveries from iran and others, it will be increasingly challenging for them to sustain even modest offensive operations. >> do you agree with that assessment, madam ambassado...

He is the director of international security program at csis. and also is a former adviser to the commanding general of the american special operations forces in afghanistan. so says, that russian freight train that we saw today, blown up, that was an ied attack. we've seen a number of these sorts of attacks on russian infrastructure. just over these past few weeks. what do you read into that? >> well aaron, what it looks like is that the ukrainians are doing our targeting russian logistics hubs. this is critical in general but also critical before a major offensive operation. you want to dest...

Seth jones, the director of international security program at csis and a former adviser of american special operation forces in afghanistan. seth, that russian freight train, that was an ied attack. we've seen these attacks on russian infrastructure over the past few weeks. what do you read into that? >> well, erin, what it looks like the ukrainians are doing is targeting russian logistic hubs. this is critical in general, but also critical before a major offensive operation. you want to destroy as much of the petroleum oil, the fuel that russian forces need. you want to destroy their arms and...

One of the truisms of combat operations is that nothing happens as fast as you want until it starts happening a lot faster than you’d want. I think that is where we find ourselves 407 days into...