there is a lot of excitement, but ukraine isn t using the same kind of language. in terms of what we know, it seems ukraine has has concentrated a lot of men and a lot of machinery in a southeastern pocket of the front line where it is. it is claiming to have liberated a village called stara maersk, which would equate to a gain of only a few kilometres. however, to even make that kind of a gain with the level of russian fortifications there, with landmines and the reports of heavy artillery and russian forces fighting back in some areas, it is clear that the ukrainian effort has dialled up to some degree. and this is somewhere where ukrainian forces really want to try and push through and break a russian occupied land corridor in half. so whether this is part of a much bigger trend, it s too early to say. for now, it seems part of the typical toing and froing of the front line, which has been the case for months, frankly.