Residue of russian fores. the ability of the russians amplified by their own set up. this is going to be one heck of a very, very dirty fight. for historians, it almost appears to be something reminiscent of the battles of stal stalingrad, and interestingly and more specifically, leningrad. the sort of house-to-house fighting which is indeed bloody and gruesome and exactly what we saw in mariupol. we re also waiting for essentially when does this begin? this is a simple matter of timing for the russians? they need to rearm, resupply? or waiting on other factors like the weather? they want to move on firm, hard land? it s been raining, they don t want to move on muddy areas, that kind of thing? i think it s interesting you make reference to the mud. some have said that the mud was what restrained and constrained the russians to use the highway