let's turn to the donbas region — where russia says it plans to refocus its military strategy. donetsk and luhansk are the key areas — they're in the east of the country. and parts of them have been controlled by russian—backed separatists since 2014. let's hear from an expert on the russian military. the kremlin clearly intended to capture kyiv, and that failed in its early — the early section of the war here, sort of a misallocation of what they'll be doing. i do think they'll be focusing on the east, of course, as you noted, heavy concentration of fighting in mariupol — unfortunately we think the city will likely fall within the next week or so. as well as an emphasis on taking the entirety of donetsk and luhansk. we've been seeing a lot of russian forces around chernihiv and sumy, up in northeastern ukraine being pulled down into fighting around an area southeast of kharkiv, likely seeking to link up with russian forces that are pushing west. now we've already seen the situation in the east intensify. this drone footage is from donetsk shows a heavily damaged residential building after shelling. uk intelligence says this pivot to the east is "a tacit admission from russia that it is struggling to sustain more than one