take hostages. in other words, he has over the years, on more than one occasion, his government has arrested americans or westerns on trumped up charges and used it as leverage against his rivals or against the west. to the extent you're an american in russia right now i think you're taking a risk, you don't know what might happen to you. i lived there four years with my wife and even back then it was a much different, much-less repressive moment in russian society you felt at any time, you know, you could be subjected to the whims of authorities who were using you for political purposes. so right now it's a very, i i have, perilous times for americans staying in russia because of the potential for retaliation. >> general, i want to zoom out. the russian army seems to have upped its brutality over the past several days after a slow start to this campaign. what phase of the invasion are we in now? given what we talked about