the bowl bowels of this huge bug in the center of kyiv, one of the places where volodymyr zelenskyy, the president of ukraine, kind of camps out, hides out as russian forces bomb the country and, of course, bomb the capital as well. in terms of the interview, it was conducted mainly in ukrainian. there were some questions that he answered in english. we spoke about a range of issues. here's one of the issues we spoke about. we talked about the negotiations that started some days back between russia and ukraine about how to possibly bring an end to this conflict, bring an end to this violence. take a listen. you sent your delegation to meet the russians for talks. >> yeah. >> did anything substantial come out of that? is there any hope as the world watches for diplomacy? >> they decided -- they decided to begin to speak about the