sort of manage the optics of, if he s going to move forward diplomatically, do that when he hasn t got what was originally offered. and i don t think we ll have to wait too long. they indicated no answer today but in the next few days when they ve worked out a new position. president putin making a significant trip today to st. petersburg to lay a wreath at the site of the siege of lenen grad which is something that is seared into the collective memory of all russians, particularly the elder generation, like president putin s. sieged during the second world war. close to 900 days, close to 800,000 people died during those incredibly tough years. and, of course, at the time not long after, president putin grew up in the rubble of what was leningrad and has become st. petersburg. founding memories have come out of the ashes of the second world war and where we re at the the moment is really the point where