To you? reporter: in large part i do think that it is almost a flexing of their capabilities in the leadup to may 9, which is victory day and very important holiday that the kremlin sort of centers a lot of its narratives around. as well as likely they are having to bring in new capabilities that they may not have originally deployed for this war as it has gone on certainly longer than the kremlin has wanted and they are having to use these new munitions with surface warships possibly running out of their own stores or being threatened by ukrainian defenses. and i want to talk about the ukrainian counter offenses. we re seeing russia escalate, but we ve also seen a lot from the ukrainian counteroffenses being able to push russia back and make russia change its war strategy. tell us about that and how effective they were particularly in mykolaiv where that was so important. sure. so just today and in the last 48