plan and again, trying to take the whole country? i m not sure if they re trying. malcolm will be able to speak to this much better than i can. i m not sure they would be able to take the country. as they re botching their attack more and more, they hold on to none of the major cities here except kharson and the ukrainians are in control of the land so they keep terrorizing the populations as we ve seen in bucha and here in lviv. that tactic is to make the ukrainian people capitulate and say we ve had enough of the bombing raining down on us even an inch of the land. a deal is off the table. determine whatever cost to hold on to their land with sovereignty to each other here in ukraine.
more than a month and even now his army is totally surrounded. so basically, i think it will end up in maybe a partial seize fire, which is good for us. the only thing we keep asking is just to let us take our people out on the occupied territories so far because there is still stock in kharson and ukrainians do not want to live in russia and move to russia. this is something unbelievable. 60, 70 years ago this is something you could not imagine now in the 21st century so putin needs time. he s playing with us. but we will negotiate until the very last moment because if our negotiations gives us extra time to take people out and save