effective way, such as donating to the red cross. this is not the place to be. when i last spoke to you, i asked you about whether or not the pentagon has any visibility on these reports of explosions in transnistria, the breakaway region controlled by russian separatists in moldova. you had no visibility on that. since then we re learning ukrainians are sending troops to defend the border there. do you have any greater sense of what is happening there? no, we still are monitoring the reports of these explosions, john. as you get further away from them, it gets harder to get a fingertip feel of what happened. we do believe there are explosions. it is not exactly for who is responsible or what the motive was. and i ll let the ukrainians speak for their border defense, they certainly have every right and every reason to be mindful of their own border security, given what is going on in the last 64 days. but we re still looking at this, we don t have much better information. so big