vladimir putin has recognized a special entry operation has not gone well. clearly they have had to give up their aspirations for a regime change, a change in ukraine. president zelenskyy is going to stay there. so that is a major achievement as far as the russians are concerned. the ukrainians now talking about neutrality, and not giving up on wanting to join nato. but again, it is a battlefield that is defying conversation. we understand that the russians are focusing on the donbas region, well, that is understandable. given they have been fighting there since 2014, and given that the two donbas provinces have gone pretty heavy russian speaking and russian minded population. so in a sense, it isn't surprising, but then also back where they started in the donbas area. but, what about this and handling that they have pretty