[ speaking foreign language ] so tell me a little bit about the ability to get access to report on what s going on, simon? well, it s kind of a wild goose chase half of the time. you are just cruising around the peninsula and trying to confirm rumors that you ve heard that the russians are doing this here and that there and you get to places, you never know what the situation s going to be like because you might get somewhere and be able to get through or it might be blockaded by a group of cossacks and protesters. you never know what you will find. it s kind of the luck of the draw. that s kind of why we re following this convoy right now because we want to see where it s going and you ll be able to find out where it s going
so when i sense and tell me if you agree, that maybe they re removing some of these forces in advance thinking these european monitors are still not being allowed in but they might be allowed in, so they re sending some of these militias, russian troops back to their bases. is that, simon, what you sense as well? well, i think, yeah, this is a temporary measure because there are russian activities at ukrainian bases going on today. we just visited one where about a couple of hours ago a group of russian soldiers without any insignia showed up and asked yet another base to surrender to them and they didn t and a russian climbed over the wall and actually rammed the front gate with their truck. so a very tense situation, but then eventually the russians got the order to leave so they left. so they re going around spooking people and just trying to wear the ukrainians down. in fact, we re actually
i want to play another clip, simon, from your reporting. we ve noticed there have been reports and we ve seen ourself that the russians have pulled back from a number of military bases that they have been holding under siege for the last few days. and we re thinking that that might have something to do with the fact that the ose are trying to get through. [ speaking foreign language ]
tomorrow if you have a look at vicenews.com. do you have a sense where it s going? we re not far from a town so we could be going there, but it could be going beyond the crimean capital simferopol. and there are a lot of ukrainian bases in area. be careful there, simon ostrovs ostrovsky. you can see more of his reporting from ukrainian by going to vicenews.com. he s doing a great job. journalists beaten. we ll have the latest coming in from crimea. and a pop star pleading her country s case around the world. i ll talk to the voice of ukraine, lus lana.