after their exercises have ended, also the signals from the kremlin earlier today as well that the focus for vladimir putin and i'm paraphrasing him here was going to be on negotiations, even though troop withdrawals have not been verified, and the tension in ukraine tonight, the concern that there may be a sort of imminent attack. the threat is still there, but i think some of those tensions have been eased, erin. >> math thew chance, and i wanto go out front to retired general james spidermarks, head of geopolitical strategy. and evelyn farkas, former deputy assistant for russia, ukraine, and yeurasia in the obama administration. evelyn, let me start with you tonight. what do you make of the timing of the cyber attacks that we saw here tonight? you know, as they say, some exercises over, we're pulling troops out, even though that