so you have these incidences. it's very clear that you have a morale problem within the russian military perhaps all the way up into the ministry of defense, you know, in russia. but at the same time, what really matters is what people think is going on, what they perceive is happening on the battlefield. so it only takes, you know, enough troops to commit brutalities to frighten enough of the ukrainian population to change zelenskyy's position at the negotiating table. and even there are russian troops that may or may not be shooting on their own aircraft, that doesn't mean that the chechen mercenaries that come in or the syrian mercenaries that come in either know about that or care about that. they would still be capable of engaging in war crimes in order to, again, up the brutality and push the negotiating position forward. >> and where do you think that stands, this negotiation, at this very early stage, about one month into this russian invasion? how is it shaping up on the