Areas in the black sea. and at the same time they re going to continue this long-range harassing missile fire and rocket fire into this key major cities, which they have no intend on taking right now. it s just to deflect the attention of the ukrainian government and ukrainian military to help save their civilian population. how should we think about mariupol, which seems to be the city seems completely destroyed? can ukraine hold out? well, they ve done an unbelievable job in terms of the forces that are in the city holding out against three different axis of advance by russian forces. it has been from a military perspective, from my observations, a phenomenal seize operation by the russians, but they have failed just because of the will of the ukrainian fighters that are inside that plant. those fighters, those ukrainians, have held up a large amount of russian forces in an area that both sides need. that town of mariupol, that once very large port city, has roads, railroads an
you know, fareed, the russian artillery is in great quantity and quantity has a quality all of its own. but i believe based on what they re attempting to do in this new phase of the operation, that ukraine is prepared to conduct counter artillery fires as well as maneuver forces to counter any activity along three very distinct active advances that russia has actually compressed their operations into. you re talking about free zones of operation from kharkiv into the donbas, north to the northeast and into the mick allay access in the black sea. oopts and at the same time they re going to continue this long-range harassing missile fire and rocket fire into this key major cities, which they have no intend on taking right