the unfortunate trade-off that has had to have been made. really, if you talk about a failure of policy, but really, it underscores just the cruelty, the brutality, the total disregard for human life that russia has in this war. and so, again, just for me, it really underscores that moral dilemma, where there s so much more that we wish that we could do, but it is imperative that we also risk or that we avoid the risk of direct confrontation with russia. as you this was a big battle field, general anderson. there appear to be some ukrainian gains in the north around kharkiv, for instance, gaining back some villages. sounds small, just a village, but territory that s key, because it s pushing russian thri thr artillery, for instance, out of range. if you look at the battlefield along the east, are ukrainian forces not just holding the line now, but carrying out successful counter offenses?