asking for a third party to mediate and aid the civilians. it s only in that context we talk about a potential russian victory there but it has been a lot longer for the russians to have what they thought would be, you know, sort of the russian propaganda, a layup for them military and here we are. what do you make of that? well, we have to go back two months to the start of the war, the start of the invasion and the russians thought they could win and take kyiv in a matter of days. at most a couple weeks, two months later they failed to take kyiv and withdraw from kyiv and the only thing they can do is basically try to destroy everything standing in the city. there is no question of trying