ore the course of the last few days. sweep ago cross villages eastward to the city of kharkiv and heading further south, taking cities where we ve seen the ukrainian flag being raised in places like izyum and we re hear that they have the troops have crossed the donetsk river taking a village in the donetsk province. so an astonishing series of advances, no one including ukraine has expected. that is not that all of the towns are secure or that the fighting is finished or that ukraine is going to win in terms of its objects with this counter offensive. remember that this is a counter offensive under tight wraps. journal ichts have not been allowed to the front and you re seeing images of coming from the troops themselves as they raise the flags that we re then able to geo locate and tell the story of there advance. it is misleading. we had the opportunity to travel to a town which is one of the