people in ukraine, even some of the ethnic russian community, they may be connected socially or politically to russia but they want to maintain their citizenship in an integrated ukraine. now, putin's strategy is very transparent. his extraordinary call-in talk show today, the comes he made, he said he has authority from the russian parliament to use military force in ukraine. the support russia's giving these armed, ethnic russians who have barricaded themselves in ukrainian government buildings since last weekend, all of this is designed by putin to hollow out the kiev government to delegitimize it, to weaken it and set up these conversations in geneva today with secretarier can rained lavrov, the russian foreign minister, are going to be talking with the ukrainians in the eu about the future of the ukraine. the russians want a federation proposal to weaken the central government in kiev, give more problems to the regions. that is problemic for the united