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Hello and welcome to another episode of Battleground Ukraine with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Well, fighting has certainly intensified in certain hotspots in the east of Ukraine, but so far it's been hard to see a definite shape emerging from all this activity,

and we are learning of really significant losses on the Russian side.

We'll be sifting through the reports to try and get an idea of the direction the war is going in.

We'll also be talking to a remarkable woman, that's Melania Podoliak,

who works for an equally remarkable organisation, the Sergei-Pretula charity

Foundation, which delivers not only humanitarian aid to Ukrainian civilians, but military kit and

hardware, including drones to Ukrainian soldiers. Okay, let's cut to it, so I've been searching

for signs on the Russian side of the sort of preparations

you might expect to see in advance of the big offensive operation that we've been hearing

about so much in the last weeks. So far, I can't really see anything that looks like events

are taking a markedly different turn. What are you seeing? Well, not a lot to be truthful, Patrick. As I mentioned at the top,

we can see attacks ongoing right across the front, a little bit of ground being gained by Russia in

various locations. They're talking about some significant gains, as they put it. That's coming from

Russian sources in Lohansk this morning.

But in reality, these are pinpricks, frankly, compared to the huge gains made by Ukraine later in

in the year in 2022. So what's going on? Well, attacks in 11 locations in Donetsk and Le Hanzk,

as I said. Also, and this might be significant,

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