now innovative mikhail o vanessa key, political commentator, and professor at the national university of keith molina academy in moscow. victor olive h, his a lead expert at the center for actual politics and in oxford, samuel romani, associate fellow at the royal united services institute. gentlemen, welcome to your thank you very much for joining us on inside story me, kyla, in living. let me start with you. if i can remarkable advances by the ukrainians. how have they been able to make these breakthroughs so quickly? well, in fact we've been, i mean, at the end of the day we've been preparing for this for a very long time. as you mentioned in the 1st segment in the program, we were expecting an account or advance or a counter attack in the so are clearly that has probably diverted some of the russian forces away from defense around the northeastern part. it is important to note that the people that are actually on the ground liberating are the areas of khaki, almost are actually not regular army soldiers. these are people from the territorial brigades. in other words, these are people that volunteered aft