delicately balanced with some signs of ukrainians making progress overall a sense of russia s overwhelmingly large military machine grinding forward ever so slowly. machine grinding forward ever so slowl ., :, :, machine grinding forward ever so slowl . g :, :, , executive director of open society in new york. interesting today i thought they are putting forward resolution to try and protect civilians in ukraine there are lots of questions being asked about potential future use of chemical biological or indeed nuclear weapons. do you think their resolution from the un can stop something like that happening? weill. something like that happening? well, we ve seen some something like that happening? well, we ve seen some pretty something like that happening? -tt we ve seen some pretty horrific we ve seen some pretty horrific actions already taken place. since the world during that war began we ve had numerous reports of indiscriminate attacks on civilians.