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Today in Focus

Has Ukraine’s spring offensive begun?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ukrainian officials claim their forces have retaken land around the eastern city of Bakhmut and shot down Russian missiles targeting Kyiv. Luke Harding reports on the state of the war. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, a Ukrainian military offensive is coming,

0:13.0

but when and what will it look like?

0:21.2

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0:47.1

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0:49.5

I met this week with Roman Kastenko, who is a special forces colonel and a senior Ukrainian military commander.

1:05.2

And Rondy Vierder, the sort of secret location, followed his Range Rover through urban streets

1:12.2

and ended up in a field of rapeseed.

1:15.6

Blue-Carding is a senior Guardian foreign correspondent.

1:21.1

A few days ago, he was taken to see a vital weapon in Ukraine's arsenal,

1:25.5

as it prepares for an offensive that everyone, including the Russian army, knows is coming.

1:31.0

So, Jillian, what can we see? Just tell me, what is this thing?

1:35.9

It's a combat, a hit drone.

1:39.2

It's a combat drone.

1:40.6

For a combat, a combat drone.

1:43.8

Okay, you're probably right.

1:45.1

So, what we're looking at is a Ukrainian attack drone, which is used to destroy Russian military equipment.

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