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

Pessimists never win wars. If you want to win a war, you have to believe in victory.

Ukraine's foreign minister tells me their counteroffensive is moving forward,

and it's up to Putin to explain the drone strikes in Russia

our conversation here in Kiev.

Then, the trauma of Ukrainian families forcibly removed by Russia.

She ran towards me, grabbed me, shook me, shoved me inside a room and started yelling and swearing at me.

You scum, if this happens again, I know where to report you.

We hear firsthand testimony of what parents and their kids have had to endure.

Plus, the man behind the incredible journey bringing them back.

Mikula Kuleba joins me also ahead.

Why can Korea, why can we be a country to serve the interest of humankind?

South Korea's climate ambitions, Hari Srinivasan speaks to the chair of its Presidential

Commission on Carbon Neutrality, Sung-Yuk Kim. Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Pristiana Manpur in Kiev.

Drones have defined this week of war here in

Ukraine and in Russia, which says that it intercepted another one heading towards Moscow this morning.

This comes as the Ukrainian chief of military intelligence says the drone attack, which hit a Russian

airbase on Tuesday, was launched from within Russian territory.

Meantime, on the ground, Ukraine says its forces are making progress on their southern front,

claiming to have penetrated the first line of Russian defenses in the Zaporisia region.

But Kiev feels these efforts are unrecognized by some in the West, and the foreign minister

lashed out of what he calls unfair second-guessing.

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