and i want to bring in now lauren speranza, she's the director of the transatlantic defense and security program at the center for european policy analysis. and she joins us now from washington, dc. miss barons that good to see you rush us attacks seem to be growing more and more indiscriminate. what's the strategy behind that if there is one? well, thanks for having me. i do think the strategy behind this is russia is resorting to its traditional way of war. it's the playbook that we've seen in georgia in chechnya, in syria, which involves this kind of indiscriminate tax that we're seeing. applying massive fire power, rockets, artillery missiles against major population centers, essentially to try and rough up the city i enough that it allows russian forces to move in and to facilitate their occupation. and i do think there is a blatant disregard for what they are, what they are targeting with these strikes in these shelling. but part of this is also their strategy to try and break the resistance of the ukrainian people. so i'm not surprised that we're started starting to see this horri

zalinski activated thousands bought reservists to support them. joining us now from washington dc, lauren speranza, who's director of the transatlantic defense and security program at the center for european policy analysis. good terry with us. lauren, do you agree with that assessment that russia's advance on the capital a store, or is, are we seeing as a change in tactics by russian military going on here right now? well, thanks for having me. so i think we saw originally, russian military that was not well organized that did not have sufficient logistic and support. they suffered some early failures running out of fuel and food. and we're still seeing some of some of those failures on the ground. and so i think that is why we're hearing these reports. so maybe the convoy being stalled and those those failures are real. but what we're starting to see is russia also shifting its military tactics because of those failures. and it's resorting to more of its traditional way of war, which basically involves applying massive firepower to major civilian population centers. and we are seeing at the use

thank you for sharing of use. lauren speranza is from the center for european policy analysis in washington. thank you. thanks for our, let's turn our attention to some of the days avenues now. and north korea has carried out what neighboring states say is its 1st launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. since 2017 has been criticized by the government of south korea and japan, victoria gate in behalf of details. an emergency meeting of south korea is national security council. held out of to pyongyang launched an intercontinental ballistic missile will icbm. it's the 1st such missile test a more than 4 years to look for coney, the government urges north korea to immediately stop actions that raise tensions on the korean peninsula and cause regional instability and return to diplomatic solutions. as soon as possible. people who previous icbm launched by north korea have been tipped with super large heavy warheads capable of striking the united states. japan says this latest here shows north korea's technology has advanced egypt and not dutch off in, nor alcorder, based on the fact t