We did hearfrom the kremlin spokesperson this morning we talked about how yesterday for the first time the ministry of defence said 498 russian soldiers have been killed during this came paint off during this campaign and we have no way of verifying that figure but this is the first time we have talked about casualties amongst russian troops in the spokesperson said they would go down in history, the soldiers, as heroes. and that is how this is being pitched to the russian public. if you want to stay tv you will not see the extent of hostilities in ukraine, you won t see what people at home here are watching. and you will be told that this a necessary operation to defend the russian speaking populations of eastern ukraine i guess the aggression, what they say is genocide, baseless lee, perpetrated ljy genocide, baseless lee, perpetrated by the ukrainian government. jenny.
Country, again, entirely baseless lee and he also said in recent days, the kremlin has said, another demand would be that they want to see crimea, which russia annexed in 2014, recognised as russian. these are demands which are not changing. the justification for this invasion is not changing. it is very difficult to have any kind of optimism about how this situation might resolve. the west is talking about the impact of sanctions and what that might achieve, whether that might shift mr putin from his cause. the sanctions are biting. we are seeing today that the large shipping companies maersk and msc are not shipping to russia, the rouble is devaluing, people here are concerned about whether country is headed, but are they going to rise up headed, but are they going to rise up against mr putin? that seems like a very unlikely scenario. we are seeing some protests but also seeing