concern. >> courtney just interrupt you, just to point out. if you go to the north of ukraine, just a left, that little red spot there that courtney is talking about. the countries that are around and there are poland and lithuania. there has been a long-standing concern, by both of those nations and by other nato allies, that ultimately russia will try to create land bridge. take some of the areas from poland and or lithuania down towards belarus. you see that dark green, dark green nation right above ukraine. that is one of the concerns. if he takes all of ukraine, that he is just going to keep pushing further and further west into some of those nato nations. >> courtney, i want you to stand by. i want to go to eastern ukraine now and bring in matt bradley. matt and i spoke a little while ago and you hadn't heard anything yet matt, now you have? >> yeah ali. back when you and i spoke, that was before vladimir putin gave his chilling speech to the nation, sleeping russian