town they thought they had, they don t really have. because the people hate them. number two is they still have an offensive here. we also picked up intercepts that shows the russians are admitting to losing 25,000 troops in two months. 25,000. that s astounding. so when they re on the attack now. despite that loss, where are they looking to go after ukraine on the ground ukrainians on the ground? yeah, well, so our audience understands, for 8 years ukrainians have been facing the russians in the donbass area in the east is what we talk about. and actually it s kind of trench warfare because the terrain is so open. the ukrainians are defending from the north against the russians who are there from the south. what is happening now, certainly, is the russians came in through kharkiv and they are moving south on an access to come into the ukraine s rear. that s referred to as military
envelopement. area concentration of forces loss to move in the ukrainian s rear same area the forces from the north would be coming down. that s a military involvement. involve envelopement. that causes huge problems for the ukrainians. why? because they had to defend the russians in front of them from the south and that fighting is taking place almost every day. now defend from the forces coming from the north into their rear. and that means they obviously had to build fortified positions now. to defend against that. so, our concern has been that the russians have overwhelming use of artillery and they can grind down the ukrainian forces so the russians can achieve a significant penetration. they have not been able to do it. brian. brian: right. they made modest gains but no serious penetration yet.