offers them a fairly direct pathway to kyiv, to the ukrainian capital. and what we understand from a senior lawmaker senator marco rubio, who has been receiving intelligence briefings on what the russian publicing for this invasion entails, tweeting just in recent hours that that incursion in particular suggests russian planning to try to cut off kyiv from ukraine's own forces operating in the east of the country, sort of butting up against the separatist-held republics in the east of the country. so the defense department intelligence community looking at how the ground campaign is going to unfold and what sort of air support might be brought into bear in order to facilitate that ground campaign. big question right now i think is will russia attempt to hold territory. russia has obviously said it doesn't intend to occupy