keith nigel, what is your sense of where the conflict fans and where it's headed? and how long can ukraine hold out where this additional support that's been provided by, by nato and other western countries? very little about this war has gone in the way the roger hoped or intended. and it's based a series of cert, but, but of exposed weaknesses in it. sir, it is political assumptions about the, the situation, ukraine and about the performance, the logistics, the communications, and the tactics of russian military forces themselves. that said, russia still has a very large number of forces, it could continue to commit to this, but it knows russia knows that out the flow of. busy western support comes into ukraine. it will become harder rather than easier still for russia and all the reports we have about the more raul and the motivation on the 2 sides in the field suggests that ukraine's of forces are far more disciplined and far more motivated in spite. so things are looking very difficult for russia, which is precisely why there was the fear in the west. busy of