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DSR Network.com slash by. Now please enjoy the show. You're going to be. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily I'm David Rothkoff joined by Riley Fesler

slightly under the weather.

How are you doing, Riley?

Slightly under the weather, but otherwise not too bad.

And Minnestine, less under the weather

than she used to be, right yeah slightly above the weather above the weather and I'm I don't know where I am it's too early in the day

Riley where am I what's going on here today?

Well, you're in Russia today, David.

A senior Russian commander reported that Ukrainian forces

had been pushed out of a village in Russia's border region following

the major incursion by Ukrainian troops into Russian territory on August 6th, the largest

into Russian territory since World War II.

Despite initial Ukrainian advances,

the Russian military has begun to reclaim some of the territory,

although Ukrainian forces continue probing

along the front.

The attack has exposed weaknesses in Russia's border

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