period as a new beginning for this war. apache barry is a defense and security expert at the university of buff. he's playing down a significance over russia's claim to have captured solid, the compared to this, the ukrainian successful attacks, the defense of a successful camera attacking her song. and also in car kid. this is a minute scale, and there is the possibility of ukraine already preparing lines behind, even back loot and back moot. you know, the russians aren't ready to move on back lose immediately in this winter where there's been less offensive and a grinding additional battle. an intense battle apartment you saw that are, of course it's made the headlines. it's very useful. i think, for russia, politically it's revealed, russia isn't fighting this in a militarily. common sense way. it's shocking thousands of people into a death trap and making very slow, somewhat steady gains in areas that don't really matter. that's what it's showing. they're fighting for politics, the political infighting in moscow. this is what's going on, rather than on the unified command structure with a c