chief editor of the multimedia project ukraine world. thank you for being hear with us. i would like to start with what we just saw there. the resistance in mariupol. what kind of symbol are those fighters becoming for ukrainians? they re becoming a symbol of heroic people. really heroic people. the plan is called azovstal, which means azov steel. and there is lots of images, lots of this symbolic images that there are people of steel. imagine the russians wants to conquer ukraine in three days and now they cannot really conquer, fully conquer mariupol in over two months. so it is already approaching three months. and this is, of course, the heroic struggle. yeah. many have speculated that putin needs a victory there to present to russians in time for victory day on monday.
off russian assault of kyiv. so by doing that they have essentially saved ukraine. it does look very likely russia simply not going to be able to take kyiv, any time soon. there forces have been exhausted, they are low on morale, they are going to try to conquer more territory in the donbas, they will try to conquer mariupol, in order to present thatis mariupol, in order to present that is a bit free, from may nine, which is when what happens in moscow during the victory day but mariupol, the defenders of mariupol are what has essentially saved ukraine. with that impending date, the victory day in early may do you think that means we could see an intensification as we get closer to that date, as president putin feels there is an imperative for him to be able to present a victory of some sort to his audience at