Ukraine launched a counteroffensive last week, reclaiming some of the land it had lost to Russia earlier in the war.  Meanwhile, Russian forces are reportedly fleeing rather than fighting, and Russian oligarchs dying under mysterious circumstances. 

Much of Ukraine’s recent focus has been in the region of Kharkiv, and the Associated Press has reported that parts of the Ukrainian front have even reached the border of Russia.

Ukraine has been backed by a large influx of military aid and weapons from the West.  Just this week the U.S. approved an additional $2.7 billion dollars of aid and weapons, bringing the total amount of U.S. aid to Ukraine to approximately $13 billion dollars. 

So, is Russia losing the war?

We speak with Nikolas Gvosdev, professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College and editor of Orbis, a journal of world affairs by the Foreign Policy Research Institute.