charles stafford, al jazeera, eastern, new grade. this is the story on the ground in ukraine at the moment to the areas in red, are controlled by russia. and these are the regions. russia wants to annex plus crimea, which was claimed by russia in 2014, in total. it's about 18 percent of ukraine's territory, and includes parts still under ukrainian control. department bure is a defense and security analyst at the university of bass. he joins us live now. thanks much for being with us. so just to go back to work. so you crenza, achieved on the ground a, it seems to be saying that it's managed to receive some the errors in the house on, at the were occupied by russia. how a strategically important would that be? good evening law and i think it's quite important in terms of if you look at the sort of the, the wider strategic picture, what you craner actually doing is able to launch 2 major operations in different parts of the country. against the russians and deliver and success, day after day after day. and that's, that's impressive. yo