which has been confined until now to cruise missiles and artillery, russian games here have been rather mod est. you are mentioning the shift in tactics, and hitting train stations and it seems that russians are trying to soften the ground before any major ground assault. is there any sense from what you re hearing from ukrainian officials as to the timetable when that advance will begin? no sense at all, jonathan. the fact of the matter is that the russians are making essentially like i said cruise missile assaults, ar tail ry assaults, they haven t started in ernest a ground invasion, though they did take the city of kharnina in the past 24 hours, a smaller city but they have taken some villages. when we re talking about this huge anticipated assault, if it started already, then it started with a wimper and not a bang. jonathan? nbc s matt bradly , thank you very much. stay safe there, please. switching to domestic news,