russian security services, that the offensive is not going well, that some special forces, the russian pesnaps are furious because they've been sent into battle without proper support and many have been killed. they said the national guard forces and the regular army, which includes the chechen units, the two are not coordinating, and that the plan is somewhat disjointed, that it's partly a plan for war and partly a plan for peacekeeping and so-called denazi-fication in this country that has led to the lack of cohesion. a lot of this goes back to the man who is behind it all, vladimir putin, who i'm told is increasingly isolated, is just taking advice from his inner circle that there are only about three people that matter right now, and that speech, you mentioned it a short while ago that putin gave yesterday, a