mr macron said he demanded that putin sees the offensive and institute a ceasefire. may be little chance of that, but he did say that he also said to mr putin that he should stop targeting civilian areas, and the russian president seemed to agree with that, make of that what you will. we heard from the russian side that it was only possible to do a deal if their core concerns were met, and that meant a demilitarised, neutral ukraine, and russian sovereignty recognised over crimea, so little chance of that. and in the light of that, stepping up and in the light of that, stepping up of eu sanctions, more than a dozen big russian oligarchs, business figures is targeted, asset freezes, travel bans, these are big bankers, old kgb friends of president putin, his security service contacts, and that is a high profile sign of the hardening we have seen in the eu and the unity of this position coming together in this crisis. clive.
words, his thoughts, his point of view. so, yeah, he s pretty he s rather alone in his planning. but at the same time, i must say that in the beginning, like up after the first crimean war after the first ukrainian war in 2014, the first sanctions were directed to those big russian oligarchs, big money. and many of those oligarchs were close to probably in the beginning of their career 10 years ago with the power somehow. probably with the former government with yeltsin. we definitely know that many people under sanctions right now