director of the eurasia centre at the atlantic council thinktank. she gave me her assessment of where russia currently stands in the conflict. russia is making slow but steady progress. we need to be watching what they're doing in the black sea region. you had a great report on what's happening, but i'm deeply worried about but humanitarian capacity. there's many thousands of people who don't have power, water orfood and they're melting snow for drinking water. the situation is very dire, and i think what vladimir putin is going to do is replicate the tactics that he's put in place in mariupol, and some people are calling it the aleppo strategy, bombing and both card gave in kyiv. i think that's what we'll see next. the situation is going to get worse and worse. ——