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His objectives, and it's very hard, you know, declaring victory and turning away, given that at this point unfortunately. >> it's such a great points a you mentioned. he's failed to affect his key objectives here. talk to me, chris. where are we a month into this war, a big picture, set the stage, for people who are following sort of all of the developments and details day to day. zelenskyy says one day the troops are moving out of northern ukraine, and then the next day we get a different story and russia has escalated once again. a month in, where are we, chris? >> well, the rugs are in the ...

Europe relies on nearly 40% of its energy needs from russia. so even if europe were to today try to wean itself off of russian oil and gas, it would still take some time to find alternate sources to supply that much energy, boris and laura. >> all right. atika, thank you for that. joining me now, cnn global affairs analyst and staff writer for the new yorker, susan glasser, and chris mill eric foreign director of the policy of institutes. so nice to have you both bright and early this morning. chris, let's begin with those sanctions. zelenskyy says they need to be strengthened. it's clear that...

They've been readjusting their focus, with drawing certain troops from the north of the country, basically admitting they're never going to take kyiv and instead refocussing their military effort on donbas where they've occupied a chunk of the territory and where russian is going to try to take substantially more territory over the next couple of weeks. if you watch russian state television, what you'll mostly hear about is war in the donbas region, much less about russian fighting in the rest of the country, which does suggest they think this is the most popular part of the war at home, tryin...