Then tisty of the recording. ukraine says previous sp intercepted where soldiers and civilians as we told you at the top of the hour are holed up. let s dig deeper now into russia s plans for ukraine. we are joined by former-mots cow correspondent and russia scholar at the hudson institute. david, thanks is very much for joining us. let me get your thoughts on really the latest moves by the russian forces that we were explaining there in mariupol. president putin as you probably heard in the last 24 hours has truly been putting a spin on this, saying it s opinion successfully liberated those were his words. we know that is not the case there is still that popular resistance but he needs to sell this at home, does he not? yes definitely and there is an important date coming up, may 9th. that is the anniversary of the