sort of lend an official front to its illegal annexation to distract from the fact it is essentially annexing territory in which it is actively retreating and all this as international condemnation of the annexation continues to mount. we have french president macron speaking to president zelenskyy on sunday saying they are condemning this calling for more sanctions. more sanctions have already come from the u.k. and the u.s. the eu is now considering an eighth package. the u.s. also just approved another 12 billion in aid for ukraine. so look, even though we saw president putin on friday calling for ukraine to return to the negotiating table though his red line of saying these territories are part of russia is ukraine s red line because they won t discuss peace while the annexations have been carried out. peace talks all of his actions point to the fact he has prolonged this war. the western resolve to support ukraine has not weakened so we