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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): And Margaret joins me now.
So, Margaret, you have been talking to people in both governments, the U.S. and Ukraine. You have been talking to people on the ground. Is the Ukrainian military finally on a roll?
MARGARET WARNER (NewsHour): The picture, actually, privately, they admit both sides, that it’s not as rosy as portrayed.
That is, yes, they finally after really months of laying siege to Slavyansk managed to provoke a panicked retreat by the rebels. And the national security adviser of Ukraine gave a briefing talking about that. They left behind a lot of heavy equipment and weapons. That was clearly a panicked escape.
But even he admitted that the rebels had succeeded by using the locals as human shields for months. He said Donetsk is a whole ‘nother order with all of these people, and he said, it makes it very complicated for us. He also admitted that even though they have sealed the road crossings from Russia, there is all this unprotected — I have been out to that border.
There is all this unprotected forest, he said, fields, rivers in which Russians are still trying to get men and material in.
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