Ahead of the may the ninth victory day celebrations would be hugely symbolic for vladimir putin. so some are wondering, now that the civilians are out, what will happen to that planned and what will happen to these fighters and it may be that any negotiations under way are a race against time. liam collins is a retired colonel and special forces officer, who has served in a variety of operations and multiple combat operations to afghanistan, iraq and bosnia among others during his 27 year career. he has also worked extensively with ukraine to introduce substantial reforms within its military after russia annexed crimea. he s in wisconsin. during that victory parade president putin will declare victory, no doubt about it. a pot he probably wanted to do was declare victory over ukraine. is it going well for the ukrainians werejust ukraine. is it going well for the ukrainians were just the russians, do you think? it is both, right. russians, do you think? it 3 both, right. ukrainians ar