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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, August 30th.

I'm Emily Peck and for Nila Boudou. Here's what we're covering today.

Clothing brands respond to our growing waste lines.

Plus, why $20 an hour is the new $15 an hour.

But first, Ukraine goes on the offensive. That's today's one big thing.

Ukraine has launched a counter-offensive in the south of the country to retake Russian occupied care zone.

The highly anticipated move could change the shape of the war.

Meanwhile, U.N. nuclear watchdogs are headed to assess the Zaparigia power plant in the southeast of Ukraine

as continued shelling has been stoking fears of nuclear disaster.

Axios' Dave Lawler is covering all this. Hi, Dave.

Hi, Emily. So, what does this counter-offensive entail as far as you know?

We don't know exactly the scale of it quite yet, but we have been waiting for this news for a few weeks now.

Basically, in the early days of the war, Russia was not successful in taking Kiev.

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