those numbers and the pace is going to remain about the same. to remain about the same. what you think about russia s to remain about the same. what you think about russia s potential - to remain about the same. what you think about russia s potential to - think about russia s potential to take over or control more areas of ukraine some of which they already dominate? you re the mac though, i think vladimir putin does want to show the russian people that he has achieved something real and he has a big deadline of may nine, the biggest holiday in the russian calendar and in terms of what could happen between now and then he could take mariupol. the besieged city, heavily destroyed. it had 3a0,000 people before the war started and probably has about 100,000 people remaining, we don t know. the city could fall at any point. enough to justify what is done to the russian people? i don t know. it to military analyst this afternoon and they said nothing of major significance is likely to f