In the coming week, Ukraine begins a second winter at war, while U.S. lawmakers weigh whether to support the fight.

Argentinians choose their president amid spiraling inflation, and Turkey's President Erdogan visits Berlin.

It's November 16, 2023 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carla and Robbins.

Carla, let's start in Ukraine.

It's been over a year and a half now since the February 2020 invasion by Russia and the conflict grinds on.

Ukraine's counteroffensive momentum, such as it was, has stalled in the last five months.

There's growing concern about a possible Russian bombing campaign stepping up just as the coldest

months of winter roll in. At the same time, there's a whole lot of

political maneuvering happening in the U.S. Congress where the future of U.S. military to Ukraine is

uncertain. So in the bigger scheme of things here, what is it going to look like for Ukraine to

break the stalemate or at least show some momentum? Well, the Ukrainians are certainly worried

about that. Zelensky just said that he doesn't want another frozen conflict. He certainly does know about frozen conflicts. He went through this with Crimea. And it has been a very hard counteroffensive. It has truly stalled as the only word you can use for it or stalemate, which the Ukrainian head of the military, has used that term just last week.

They've advanced only 17 kilometers since June, and they're nowhere close to their goal of

breaking that land bridge that links Crimea and Russia. This is a really hard thing to do.

They're fighting deeply dug in forces. It's very easy to drop mines, very hard to dig them out.

And Ukraine's commander-in-chief told the economists, just like in the first world war,

we've reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate. And he said they need

new technological weapons, systems, and innovative approaches to break out. So what we think he's asking for things

like advanced drones, for mind-breaching technology, for new decoy systems to defeat Russian missiles.

They need a lot more help. And, you know, everybody loves a winner. And right now, they're not

losing, but they're not winning. And, you know And war is hard, and this is a particularly hard one.

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