joining us now from kharkiv is the correspondent the new york times who s the lead byline thomas givens. mr. give us enough is the bureau chief of the new york times facing last time he brings unique experience to this reporting job he s also served our country as a marine infantrymen with two tours in afghanistan. mr. given snuff, thank you for joining us. thanks for having me. so we ve been following your reports from kharkiv any reports from all the reporting they ve done in ukraine closely. can you just give us an update on the scale of what s happening in terms of this phase of the war and with russia appears to be trying to accomplish? it s tough and as you can around the articles that we ve written, they have narrowed their focus. they have thousands of troops kind of located in the east preparing for a larger offensive but taking much less ground that set out for in february.
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