process. i think what we're seeing here is a real concerted effort to bring this fight to the russian territory, to the russian people, make it impossible for them to ignore it. omar. >> and on that latter point from president zelenskyy that you brought up yourself, what is the state of the ukrainian counteroffensive at this point? >> it seems to be inching forward slowly but surely very difficult but spread out cacros the key area. we're hearing from the defense minister, she says in the last squeak they've liberated two square kilometers around the city of bakhmut. that is 70,000 kilometers in that access, two-thirds the size of manhattan, for context. it's still very slow and they're making gains in the south as well. as they try to split russia's