johnson and joe biden. that hope seems to be based on the idea that may be the ukrainian government could clarify the timeline for their membership ofjoining nato and could they clarify the timeline in such a way that reassures the russians and then vladimir putin can climb down. at the same time, they are making scary sounding warnings that a big russian military invasion could only be something like 24—hour is the way, because that is what american intelligence suggested at the weekend. �* , ., ., , weekend. let's find out if that is likel . our correspondent in moscow, caroline daviesjoins us now. what sense do you get from the kremlin? we have not heard from the kremlin? we have not heard from the kremlin this morning but in terms of the papers, a lot of them focus on the papers, a lot of them focus on the meeting between sergei lavrov the meeting between sergei lavrov the foreign minister and president putin during which sergei lavrov reassured president putin it was worth continuing to have discussions