I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today is another bank holiday in the

United Kingdom, so while we're not doing live updates, we've gone back through our email

post-bag, which is overflowing with your questions. As always, thank you so much for getting

in touch. We may only be able to respond to some of your emails, but we do try and read

every single one. To answer your questions today, I'm joined by our podcast regulars,

Assistant Comment Editor Frances Dernley, and our Associate Editor for Defence, Dom Nichols.

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in vain. We need a military strategy

for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war. Nobody is going to break us.

We're strong. We're Ukrainians.

Dom, can I start with you? This is a question from Colin. He says,

one thing that seems to be missed when we talk about the upcoming offensive. This is the

anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive. We hear about tanks and the ammunition and gun barrel

smooth or rifled, but what about the issue of mines ahead of the Ukrainians will be minefields

for many kilometers. How do tanks deal with mines? Dom Nichols.

Thanks Colin, tricky one. I mean, mines aren't good at all for movement across sunny

pieces of ground, and so tanks don't deal with them themselves. They have other vehicles,

engineer assets, basically, that are based on tank hulls that go and dig them up, shove them

to one side, and as well as mines, these engineering assets cover gaps, rivers. They continue the

motion. So the first thing that you do when you look at a piece of ground from a soldier's point of

view is the engineers need to get involved to say, well, how am I going to safely cross that bit of

ground? And it's just worth touching here, almost happening in Ukraine. So in January, we saw

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