With hello and welcome. Im clear, richardson in berlin. Its a great privilege to be hosting this edition of to the point. Weve a fantastic panel for you this week. Very pleased to welcome marina hanker a security expert and professor of International Relations at the hearty school in berlin. Carolyn of a gora board member of the polish weekly kaltura liberal up and more. Its got my chief reporter for the german political magazine, cicero, he joins us after having just returned from ukraine. Thank you all so much for being here, a marine. Id actually like to start with you a present for a lot of years. Lensky has said, now that a full, 30 per cent of ukrainian power plants have come under russian strikes, its already leading to black outs across the country. A. Do you think that the timing is intentional, with temperatures dropping in a cold winter setting . And absolutely, its intentional, but its also a result of whats happening in the dumbass and in the cur son region. And it them, u