Ukraine's Counter-Offensive

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Oliver: We're still very much in a shaping phase of this counter-offensive. There are a few really key questions that we still haven't gotten answered to. Can Ukraine win with brigades of relatively inexperienced but Western trained soldiers and Western equipment? It's still very early on, but the answers to these three questions will, in the large part, determine the outcome of thiscounter-offensive.

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