Prepared to call his bluff, that he will not actually move ahead with a step like that. willie. germany getting about 12% of its oil from russia. large impacts not just on germany but as you say on russia as well. raf, let me ask you about the situation in mariupol right now. we ve been describing the scenes and getting a look inside the steel factory where the fighters and civilians are holed up. thousands of them. conditions described in there as catastrophic. the rhetoric from russia is they want for explore the way to get civilians out of there. practically speaking, though, ukraine says russia continues to shell that steel factory. so what is going on actually on the ground there? reporter: so, willie, as you said, big disparity between what we re hearing from the kremlin and what s going on the ground. the secretary of the general of united nations met with vladimir putin at the kremlin yesterday. he sat at the end of that very long table, and he came out of that meeting sayi