reserve troops. russia has ukraine outgunned in the air. you can see that ukraine has dozens of active combat helicopters. russia has hundreds if not thousands. russia has the upper hand with fighter jets and bombers. russia has over 1,500 war planes. let's bring in pavel, a moscow-based defense analyst, also a columnist for a newspaper. it's good to have you, sir. i'm curious, do you think moscow has been surprised at the performance of the ukrainian military, that this hasn't been easier or quicker for russia? >> i believe everyone has been much surprised. as far as i can recall, the pentagon was also predicting that organized ukrainian resistance would collapse in 72 hours. three days. well, the three days passed and they're still fighting as an organized force.