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Ukraine counter-offensive: Can it still succeed? – BBC News
In the 18 months since Russia invaded, Ukraine has mostly been on the defensive, preventing Moscow’s forces from seizing more territory.
But this summer, Ukraine – with the help of billions of pounds of Western military equipment – has gone on the attack, attempting to expel the Russians from land they previously captured in the east and south of the country.
Two months into this counter-offensive, and with time of the essence before the onset of winter, are Ukrainian troops making any real progress?
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Is Washington leaving Saudi Arabia to fend for itself?
Last week, Houthi rebels launched a series of missile strikes on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital. Surveillance footage showed a fireball erupting as airport passengers ran for cover. At least fourteen people have been killed and hundreds were injured.
The attack is the latest escalation in a decade-long war between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in neighbouring Yemen. The Saudis have long relied on financial, military and intelligence support from the United States, particularly in their fight against the Houthis. But Washington so far has shown little appetite for direct involvement in the fighting.
So why is the United States holding back? And what does that mean for the people caught in the middle?
The BBC’s chief international investigations correspondent, Nawal Al-Maghafi, recently reported from inside Yemen and joins The Global Story’s Asma Khalid to discuss why this conflict is escalating and what might happen next.
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0:00 Are the US going to join the Saudi fight against the Houthis?
1:21 Introduction to Nawal Al-Maghafi who talks us through the situation
4:31 How have Saudi Arabia responded?
7:35 Who are the Houthis?
9:39 Why has the US historically backed Saudi Arabia?
13:15 The unpopularity of the Saudi/Yemen war
17:00 Why has fighting re-started since the ceasefire?
18:00 Nawal’s visit to Taiz
21:58 Are the Houthi’s feeling more emboldened to fight?
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A Kenyan judge has started to deliver a verdict in a mass murder case involving doomsday preacher Paul Mackenzie.
Mackenzie and 29 of his followers are being charged with the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children.
His cult is alleged to have forced children to starve to death so that they could “meet Jesus”.
Mackenzie and the 29 others have all pleaded not guilty to murder, repeatedly insisting that nobody was forced to die.
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America’s pain at the pump could have major implications for the future of the war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump wants to bring down fuel prices for Americans. One way he’s trying to do it is by reopening the door to Russian energy, reversing a policy designed to deprive Russian President Vladimir Putin of money for his war in Ukraine.
The shift comes as relations between Trump and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky have deteriorated dramatically. Trump has blamed Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries for contributing to the global diesel shortage, while Ukraine says those refineries are a crucial source of revenue for Russia’s war machine.
So, is American angst about fuel prices changing Trump’s approach to the war? And would importing Russian diesel even make a meaningful difference to US prices?
The Global Story’s Tristan Redman speaks to BBC Verify’s Ben Chu about the fuel crisis drawing together Trump, Putin, Zelensky and the American midterm elections.
0:00 Diesel prices are at a record high
1:02 Introducing Ben Chu from BBC Verify
1:39 Why has there been a domestic fuel crisis in the US?
4:29 Is there a link between the Ukraine/Iran conflicts?
7:42 Trump promised less than $2 a gallon, has he achieved this?
11:00 Is the Ukraine war or Iran war having more of an impact?
12:52 The reversal of US policy towards importing Russian diesel
18:03 Why did Trump make this deal with Russia?
20:23 The easing of the Russian shadow fleets
22:39 Is Russia using their fossil fuel exports to fund the war in Ukraine?
24:38 Is Trump making Zelensky a scapegoat?
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@MasafumiKiuchi-ge4oi
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
All americas fault
@chrismadison305
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
No it was never was going to succeed as we see now and Ukraine is not going to win the war as it never was going to win.
@iamsorryforbeingrudebefore1626
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
It's an epic fuilure.😂
@mrvgranfield
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
A total load of propaganda tripe this is just a bag of lies nowhere near . Make it up as you go What is going on at the BBC it at one time did really good news
@joselitoflores1156
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Superlative expectations of the minuscule equipment, not to mention the lack of air equation in the aid package seem cutthroat to Ukrainians. The west probably wants Ukrainians to fight like the Afghan mujahideen during the 80's, but they lack poppy milk.
@sethdekooters7567
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
BBC has always been the chief propagandist for the English government. The deception is outrageous. Russia is winning the war economically, militarily, intellectually and righteously. MI 6 is a loser operation.
@videotalktalk
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
This is the country that brought the allies the victory in World War 2. This is the country that keeps its economy going even with a vast amount of sanctions. Ukraine never stood a chance…and if Putin wanted Ukraine, rather than just to clean out unrightful leaders occupying via COUp, Then they would have gone straight for infrastructure. And Putin said this from day one. BUT, western media has been drilling its citizens heads with RUSSIA IS ALL LIES, and YOUR MEDIA IS ALL TRUE. Sadly, a great number of us are incapable of escaping the programming.
@0815funkmaster
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
No it can't….stop gaslighting us.
@doctorbrodeur
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Look to Afghanistan if you want to see usas future succcess in Ukraine.
@doctorbrodeur
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Short answer: no. We sent a generation n of young men to their death against an insurmountable Russia.
@demisama3038
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
So this is going to be a long war ladies and gents. Why? Because these companies and governments are taking advantage of this war. The field tests for all these new advanced weapons is just what everyone wants. You can bomb and rest these things at home but in war it's all pushed to the extreme.
After these toys are played with I assume the war will die down but won't end. It'll just be a pause but a stop. Politics and personal interests all playing out using average gi joes, what a shame, they never asked for this.
@granatnyk
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
BBC wrote and said last year that Putin is gravely ill and russians are out of supplies bombs rockets they only have shovels to fight and so on. How could BBC get all these misinformations?
@hadirmaamouri4204
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
the way the western mainstream media covered this war made me realize how gullible and easily misled most Americans are .. It's no wonder you don't hold your government accountable for anything
@tinyrick6264
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
This hasn’t aged well
@therooster4426
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
All your lies are coming home to roost. Russia vs the nazis
@tomp7847
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Let’s just end this already, countless people are dying and the border isn’t even moving, not to mention wasted tax dollars and people starving globally due to war-induced food shortages
@kupper123
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Maybe the real counter-offensive are the friends we lost along the way.
@theoarntz2510
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
No
@joseaugustofigueiredo2796
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Dennis Rodman Basketball player friend of my xapa Kim who doesn't steal my Brazil, he must go to North Korea carrying a letter from the American government and endorsed by the American General Staff so that the soldier returns to his country if he wants to and that will not be punished. It makes no sense for corrupt media supported by the dollar to want to denigrate the soldier's image. These media are corrupt.
@joseaugustofigueiredo2796
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Europe and England want to go back to massacring Africans and CNN and BBC put their packages with their journalists of African origin, to deliver them to Europeans, there is always someone who, just because he is in a privileged position, accepts any role. They are supported by the embezzlement practiced with the dollar! They use everything! from gender to race!
West's desire to control Africa explains MI6's plan to send Ukrainian mercenaries
A military diplomatic source and other Russian media revealed on Wednesday that Britain's MI6 had prepared a "sabotage strike squadron" of 100 fighters to send on missions against Russian-friendly governments in Africa.
@joseaugustofigueiredo2796
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
The great, magnanimous and victorious Russian nation must demand that more referendums be held in other regions of Ukraine.
NATO fart chief says!
After a speech by the chief of staff, NATO backs off and says it is up to Kiev to 'decide conditions for the ceasefire'
Head of the Atlantic Alliance tries to circumvent the statement of his chief of staff at a press conference today (17) in Norway. At the same time, Stoltenberg declared that he "detected no change in Russia's nuclear forces".
This Thursday (17), NATO Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg tried to "fix" the speech of his chief of staff made on Tuesday (15).
"It is the Ukrainians, and only the Ukrainians, who can decide when there are conditions for negotiations and who can decide at the negotiating table what is the acceptable solution," the head of the alliance was quoted as saying by Reuters.
@joseaugustofigueiredo2796
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
North Korea's Comrade Kim grants political and human rights asylum to American soldier who fled racism in the US.
@clarkeorchard2304
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
The bbc coverage of one of world's most important events is terribly bad. Almost non existent, lazy when it happens, i have just watched a utube SILICONE CURTAIN who has just hosted a panel series live in Kiev which is a whole better level.
BBC is supposed to lead, educate its people on this type if event. Especially since 🇬🇧 signed the Budapest memorandum, meaning we are ethically and morally obliged to help Ukraine. This decision was made in the people's name yrs ago, therefore the coverage should be complete to counter russian propaganda and educate. In the past few days spies have been arrested in 🇬🇧, our foreign office hacked, plus several others. BBC is a let down for me.
A total lack if questioning, why is the west supply so slow, incomplete and lacking? 1.5 yrs later? Are sorting it out? Explanations of how Ukraine is dealing with its old culture of corruption? Why did the west only supply 15% of the requested mine clearing equipment? Why did we not clearly say Russia blew the damn? When only a week-10 days, Russia changed its rules on investigations of this type of event. Then blew the dam.
@scottduke3681
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
it would not take long if the world would have called out the littel man's bluff he is scared and nows the time
@joseaugustofigueiredo2796
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Weapons and Western military vehicles captured in Ukraine are displayed in Russia
More than 800 types of western and Ukrainian military weapons and vehicles captured by Russian forces in the conflict zone in Ukraine were displayed on the framework of the ARMY-2023 military exhibition in Kubinka, Moscow Region, this week.
Trophies displayed at this exhibition, which takes place in the Park Patriot complex, include units of military equipment such as France's AMX-10RCR armored fighting vehicles, Sweden's CV90 infantry fighting vehicles, Australia's Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle and even an XA-180 Pasi armored transport vehicle, manufactured in Finland.
@jackelgin7569
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Grammy Award War I https://youtu.be/GLQiy6HELQQ
@Factsagainstpropoganda
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
I wonder , why this NATO.
Every war they failed😂
@joseaugustofigueiredo2796
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
The magnanimous one! The grandiose! And the victorious Russian nation over would-be global rulers. Wait who to talk to!
For the first time in history, the US Navy, Army and Marine Corps are without a leader in the Senate
The retiring chief of naval operations, Admiral Mike Gilday, gave up command today (14), so the Navy, Army and Marine Corps are still without a representative.
This Monday (14), the United States Navy became the third branch of the country's Armed Forces to no longer have a leader confirmed by the Senate for the first time in history.
@Mohamedkallon569
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Bro there is nooooo progress its just death to ukraine….stop lying
@hemalmunasinghe1540
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
I love Russia 💌
@jameshdr5583
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
British should be ashamed of itself !!!
@brucelez1
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
This is a war of attrition, when the cost to Russia gets too high Putin will be replaced / removed from office or killed and there will be peace, Ukraine gets the territory back as a settlement. That's how this ends. Russia cannot advance, neither can Ukraine. There are trenches, tanks are almost useless, nobody has air superiority, neither side can field a navy of any use. It is WW1, and it will rage until someone looses the will or ability to continue the fight. Russia will be the looser on this one as they will run out of food and equipment and men first, the supply lines are really long and the troops genuinely don't want to be there. The Ukraine is well supplied by Europe, has almost limitless weapons available, (we will supply enough to keep the fight going if not to win outright) and the Ukraine grows a hell of a lot of food, so starvation is not going to be an issue.
@damianvisser977
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
America wants dead Russians. It's getting dead Russians. America is happy.
@WilliamSengdara
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Be impartial and report the news as it is.
All western media is censored from reporting anything that paints Ukraine in a bad light.
@chrisozay2161
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
No it can’t
@markwalters2970
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
War is more difficult thanmaking a cake Ukraine is being attack they have to defend in the way they can
@geraldhagen2989
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
New HIT song in Russia ; 'Cry me a bridge. '
@paulwije995
December 20, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Can pugs fly😅