and bring a peaceful conclusion to all of this, and the feeling is that was all a sham, a complete waste of time. vladimir putin had pretty much decided what he was going to do, and now europe is engulfed in this conflagration. now europe is engulfed in this conflagration. clive, ithink what we have seen conflagration. clive, ithink what we have seen and conflagration. clive, ithink what we have seen and heard - conflagration. clive, i think what l we have seen and heard intimate s programme is so stark, shocking, even scary. to see those images of ukrainian warplanes struggling against russian jets, the ukrainian warplanes struggling against russianjets, the reports that russian forces have taken over the chernobyl power station, they have taken a major airfield just north of kyiv, it s only an hour and a half from where we are now, and ukrainians have begun to think the unthinkable. western leaders who predicted that president putin would have kyiv in his sights could be true. a