On this Back Story the Institute for the Study of War's Nataliya Bugayova, talks to host Dana Lewis on the critical timing at stake in Ukraine. A tiring, and largely spent Russian force colliding with an ever stronger and better equipped Ukrainian army.

Ukraine will not cede territory to Putin's war machine, but it needs to counter attack and take back lands soon.

And political commentator from Germany, Jessica Berlin on why Russia should be beaten on the battle field, and our colonial subconscious may be preventing great powers from supplying  just enough military muscle to give Ukraine victory.