seize, with the flag metaphorically or physically in the sand and hold something, whether it s mariupol, mariupol is surrounded by russian forces at the moment but there is a small amount of ukrainian marines holding the centre and the port of mariupol, there will also be external foreign forces also assisting that effort, how long that can go on i m not sure. to the north, kharkhiv has been the centre of some of the most fiercest fighting, so far, then you have the don base region, you can t get that the don base region has been contested since 2014, there is territory inside donbas, the separatists are in control of and there is territory inside don bass that ukrainians in control of, and the two major cities inside don bahs are the net and luhansk. i