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This is a CBS I and the World. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague and co-host and friend Bill

Raggio, Senior Fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's Long War Journal and

one of the keen reporters on Long War Journal, we welcome John Hardy of the

FDD watching Ukraine for us, especially the combat that is variously reported

over these last weeks of not a static front, but incremental steps by the Russian forces and their allies towards consolidating the four Oblast provinces claimed by Moscow.

That's Donutsk, Luhansk, Zapparizia, and Herson, adding Crimea, that we're

told by the Kremlin, who we have medium confidence in anything the Kremlin says.

That is their goal for now.

John, a very good evening to you.

Since last we spoke, Russia had made some advances.

The Russian forces had made some advances, nothing profound, and were continued to press the

attack.

Has there been a significant change either on the battlefield or in the climate, the weather.

General Frost being next up.

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