we are seeing moscow resort back to its old fashioned strength of size and that is what is making it so hard for the ukrainians to try and push them back at the moment. james waterhouse reporting push them back at the moment. james waterhouse reporting from push them back at the moment. james waterhouse reporting from kyiv and you will have seen in the background there were tanks and as he was referring to, that is because today is ukraine s independence day and we can see live pictures there from kyiv, people milling around. the event celebrates ukraine s declaration of independence from the soviet union in 1991. it is usually marked by a military parade but that has not happened since the war began. that hasn t taken place since the war began last year. instead, destroyed russian tanks and military vehicles have been lined up in central kyiv. as we say, ukraine observing independence day. let s talk to vitaly shevchenko, russia editor of bbc monitoring.