russians before. so that is a significant thing. you get, of course, the commentary from prigozhin the head of the wagner group they may have to pull out. you can t really trust exactly what he is saying, but there is clearly something going on not only between him and the russian army but also internal to the beingner group and internal to the russian army. the russians seem to be in some disarray. the ukrainians don t have that problem, at least they don t appear to, and it s going to be pretty clear that the ukrainians will use any foothold that they gain in bakhmut to move forward. so, yes, i think that would be kind of one of those pivot points where it s going to make a huge difference for them at this particular point in time. the washington post is reporting that president zelenskyy privately is discussing being far more aggressive than he is describing publicly, potentially occupying russian villages to gain some leverage over russia, to also maybe use some long-range