Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur live from Keith. Here's what's coming up.

Ukraine signals a much needed success in its counter-offensive.

We have a report from near the front line as civilians struggle to survive.

And I speak to Ukraine's former Defence Minister, Andrei Zagorodnyo joining me here in Kiev.

Then why are Ukraine's US backers grumbling about this counter-offensive?

We get that story from former CIA chief and retired general David Petraeus.

Also ahead. When people lose confidence in an institution like the Department of Justice,

then I think we're in serious trouble as a country.

Preserving American Democracy. then I think we're in serious trouble as a country.

Preserving American Democracy.

Walter Isachson speaks to Bush's Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez

about why he thinks his fellow Republicans are wrong

about bias in the Justice everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in Kiev, Ukraine.

At a time when the country is under the microscope for any progress in its critical counter-offensive.

Breaking through Russian defences in the south,

the Ukrainian military is reporting

advances near Robotene in the Zapparizia region.

As battles continue along the front lines, some local officials say they're evacuating children from areas close to the fighting.

Now, correspondent Melissa Bell has found out all about that.

Despite these military gains, little has changed for civilians living amid the toll of war.

And she has this report from Stepnickhurst, just four miles from the Zaparizia front line.

The waters for the animals left behind.

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