Sea. will the russians have any more success controlling, maintaining, say, air superiority in that part of the country than anything else? the one thing the russians have going for them in the east is the border is so close in will many locations that russian aircraft don t have to cross a russian border into ukraine to fire. they ve really struggle ltd. their precision munitions, they expended a ton of them, even in tons of aircraft, in terms of flight. what they send out they re firing from long distance which means they can t use dumb munitions effectively. much of the artillery, usually long- range missiles, they re being shot from inside russia or just inside ukraine. so they have masses of fires they could lever here they could never get to in kyiv. in kyiv they tried to build the convoy all the way up to plant artillery so they could hit more directly inside the urban center. they never got there in kyiv. here they will have more