What is at stake in Ukraines counter-offensive?
The Ukrainian army this week announced gains around Bakhmut, its first substantive advances in about six months. That progress has prompted analysts to ask: has Ukraine\u2019s much-vaunted counter-offensive already begun? Not yet, perhaps. But it is coming.
Katie Stallard in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin discuss what the next phase of the war could look like. Will Ukraine\u2019s army make rapid progress \u2013 as it did in the Kharkiv region last September \u2013 or get bogged down in attritional battles, as has been the case at Bakhmut? Katie and Ido also discuss Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin\u2019s increasingly voluble complaints about the Russian ministry of defence, and whether the cracks in Vladimir Putin\u2019s system are starting to show.
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Katie Stallard on what to expect from Ukraine\u2019s coming counter-offensive
Ido Vock asks: has Prigozhin turned on Putin?
Ido again, on the Wagner Group\u2019s brutal tactics
Lawrence Freedman on Russia and Ukraine's attempts to control the narrative of the war
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