the first few days they made a direct push on kyiv, and i think they hoped to decapitate the government here. that convoy remains stuck about 50 miles outside the capital, so instead they ve focused on the north, the east and the south, and if you look at the map, they ve managed to control lots of oaz borders, and it s pretty clear they will soon control all of the black sea areas of ukraine. yes, it■ç appears that s their focus now. they re actually moving down from the northeast of kyiv, coming at the city from two direction, but they ve got a couple of major cities. they re surrounding mariupol, they re flattening kharkiv, odesa seems next on the list are. they re now taking a more slow, you know, labored way because this is not going to happen in days or weeks. it seems that this is now a plan for months. rachel: benjamin, we ve had several guests on at the last hour, we started at 5 a.m. this morning. some of our guests have said,