civilians that really does have some genuine pro-russian sympathies, some pro-moscow attitudes that you can see in places like crimea and donetsk and luhansk. even if they re not the majority, there are quite a few people in favor of rule by moscow. they re russian speakers and they do not speak ukrainian. so that gives the russians quite a bit of an advantage. the problem is, it doesn t seem like enough time has passed for the russians to have reconstituted their ranks. ranks that were really badly destroyed by their offensive and their defeat at the hands of the ukrainians around the north and the western part of the country. and a lot of the problems that have been dogging the russian military so far, it seems impossible they would have been fixed by now. the massive disorganization, the really low morale, and the problems with supplies and distribution at the front lines that have really been causing essentially just traffic jams in places outside of places like here in kyiv, where