de efforts made to advance from the northwest. and getting supplies directly in from russia. there s a short supply route there. the russians will be using or continuing to use to build up their troop levels here in the east to try to squeeze locations such as where i am. major city in the region that ultimately the russians want to take over. that s namely provinces they controlled about half of those two provinces or over half. they want it all at least and of course russians saying they want to capture the south of the country. i think in all probability what we re seeing now is the first few days of the second phase of the russian onslaught here in the east which is artillery drills. it eased off a bit now. half hour ago we could hear in the distance a heavy exchange.