briefing foreign reporters. he has not been speaking publicly very often over the last several days. he was trying to show his best poker face, that he s not rattled, that his country is not fazed in any way. he accused the west, accused the united states, accused nato of sowing panic. he said it was wrong that the united states ordered the evacuation and other governments ordered the evacuation of non-essential personnel. it was the stay calm and carry on mantra, summoning up his best sort of winston churchill, but without the we will fight them at the beaches. we did not hear many strong notions that ukraine would put up a significant defense. instead, he tried to tell reporters and tell him own people that this is a phase. that this will pass. that it won t necessarily happen. that ukraine has seen this kind of thing before with russia