i will continue the fight earlier, my colleagues, mickey aaron and donald quarter, discuss the issue with a panel of guest course. the pentagon now says it's not strategic, but it doesn't really make much sense for both sides to be putting so much effort, so much manpower into either holding or taking a city that was never of any real strategic importance. i mean, in the recent weeks, the wagner private military company has done just that. they've essentially almost nearly encircled the ukranian troops that are still within the city who have found themselves in a bloodbath just to maintain the defense of it. their on direct orders from ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, who said these troops need to hold their ground and they need to fight down to the last man, but we have heard reports actually of descent within ukrainian ranks. apparently, the commander in chief of the ukrainian armed forces is saying that kia should, at this point just caught its losses and withdrawal from the city. now, if we go by what the mainstream media says, it might seem that these ukrainian held cities