'The intensity is increasing': Ukraine says first steps in counteroffensive have begun

Presidential adviser says supply lines and depots already being destroyed as preliminary operations get under way Russia-Ukraine war - latest updates Preliminary operations have already begun to pave the way for a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces, a Ukrainian presidential adviser has said. "It's a complicated process, which is not a matter of one day or a certain date or a certain hour," Mykhailo Podolyak said in an interview with the Guardian. "It's an ongoing process of de-occ...