Introduction

There have been reports over the course of the last week about how the Ukrainian counter-offensive is not doing particularly well. The Ukrainians are keeping mum about a lot of the details, whereas the Russians are just flat out lying and no one really has an accurate picture of what's actually going on in the various fronts. "We're now well into the third week of the conflict and the Ukrainians haven't achieved any sort of breakthrough," says Peter Zion.