Russia claims to have repelled a major offensive in the Donetsk region, saying that hundreds of Ukrainian troops have been killed. Ukraine says it has no information to confirm the battle happened. Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk joins to discuss Ukraine’s counteroffensive and the danger of the conflict spreading more widely within Russia changing the whole dynamic of the war.

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