putin spokesman not the president himself, interesting also that state media add a pre-insurrection interview with president putin where she said his starts and ends with the special ministry operation trying to show he s still in control of the situation, no public statement from the military top brass head of the armed forces and operation in ukraine and defense minister the so-called evil leadership, the march for justice as he calls it designed to stop. however this morning, the russian ministry defense has put out video saying that the defenseman did visit the zone of the special military operation the western group of troops there. they did not however say when and we cannot verify this video but he s essentially trying to