However, there has been no evidence of fading resistance on the part of Ukrainian forces, US director of intelligence Avril Haines said. She said both sides would try to "refit, resupply and reconstitute" for a counter-offensive in the spring. The war in Ukraine is now in its ninth month, but Russia has lost more than half the land it seized. Ms Haines told a defence forum in California that most of the fighting is currently around the Bakhmut and Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. "We'r...