Volcker. thank you all for being here. so, matt, russia first said they wanted to focus on eastern ukraine. the senior russian general now saying russia wants to capture all of southern ukraine. what can you tell us about russia and its objectives now? it looks as though they want to join from the eastern donbas region, not just to crimea, which is what a lot of military analysts were saying at the outset of this war. they want to bring that land bridge all the way over to the west to join the nation of moldova. there is a russian-backed separatist enclave called transnitsia. they re already well on the way. they ve had more success, the russians, in southern ukraine than they have anywhere else.