russian landscape. but the truth of this disastrous decision by the kremlin, by putin, that is not something that putin has been able to entirely hide. ned price, i have a sense these are very busy days for you. we re grateful to you for making time to talk to us. thank you, my friend. perfect segue for my next guest. kier simons in moscow. just pick this up where ned price left it. i also heard from a former senior intelligence official that in some ways as perilous as these crippling sanctions are, if they find out about it, the death toll of young russian soldiers coming back to russia in body bags. tell me what that country is bracing for. well, i don t think most people in this country realize
conversations happening in western capitals and in the white house and in the state department about, okay, this is where we re at now. how do we get out of this? kier, there s sort of this universal acknowledgment that zelenskyy has exceeded everyone s hopes. the ukrainian people. and again, i have an anecdotal window into this, but i think the reporting bears out there s a steelyness and a refugee crisis, that leaves 43 million of them there, i wonder if there s any parallel in russia of a misalignment of expectations about the russian people? i think there may well be.