Earlier i asked her if we knew when new attacks on eastern ukraine might come. the kremlin doesn t tend to share those kinds of details with us and we know of course that they plan to intensify their efforts in the east of ukraine. they stated there and quite clearly and they want to liberated. and we don t know how and when this is going to happen but the signs do seem to point out that the intensification has already begun and there s a school of thought which says that vladimir putin wants to take the dawn bosse region by the ninth. it is very significant day where they commemorate the soviet victory over nazi germany. in the thinking goes that having presided over an invasion that has not gone to plan, vladimir putin could try to save face by telling russians on that day