War ii. as we look at live images from red square. the irony not lost on anyone in ukraine. what do you think we are we are expecting to hear, what we could possibly hear from president putin today? well, one thing that a lot of people, including officials in ukraine were expecting as recently as a few weeks ago, russia would try to hurry up and finish the invasion of ukraine in some sort of form so they could declare victory by today that. would mean capturing the donbas region in the east, taking moreland in southeastern ukraine, odessa and other territories around crimea. right now it doesn t even look like they ve done that. they haven t captured the donbas. there is large territory including odessa, the major city in the south that still remain in ukrainian hands. there are increasing fears putin could use this to declare some sort of broader mobilization.