and what we're getting a lot has lost faith feel ever return over more now i'm joined by marina monroe and she's from the worst studies department at kings college in london, the familiar face to our viewers. it's good to see you marina, you know, we just seen that report there from both. john, will ukraine be able to hold the city to good evening? brand as well as the situation is very difficult for the ukrainian forces. but what we have to understand is that 12 tons because divided by service get the next river . so it gives the korean forces a protective barrier from my understanding, the town is now divided into parts and the russians are controlling the noise. in part then they will have to cross the river in for that to be able to capture both chance in its entirety, which i think is the idea behind this offensive. however, i don't foresee to be happening very quickly, or at least not as quickly as we have seen the advances around options. ukraine says that it has stabilized the situation across the front near har keys. is that what you are seeing and hearing or well from what it

shows no signs of giving into international pressure or at least get some more analysis now with marina monroe and she's from the war studies department at kings college london. rena. it's good to see you again. so, i mean, i would start by just asking you, do we know, i mean, has the invasion of ralph, it hasn't begun a good evening brand was that's a great question because as a result of them clarity in terms of what the idea is doing, it seems like it's having some clashes in eastern rough fall with hamas mill events . however, we cannot say that the full scale incursion a for alpha has already started. and um, some of the time that this might be a way to push from us to actually agree to is fairly conditions officer deal for a ceasefire. so it might be something like a show force, which is of course, complicating israel's position on an international stage, giving the fact that the us wants to limit its arms shipments to israel. if that operation is to take place. if it goes beyond being a civil force and we're talking about a full fledged invasion, a ground defensive against or off, or ho