Was talking, hinting at nato and the west, trying to almost justify his actions, claire, of what his actions in ukraine, by blaming nato really. that obviously shifts the propaganda at home. how do you think or give us a sense 70 days into this war, how has that propaganda machine, you know, how effective is it being in russia? reporter: very effective, isa. there is very tight control of the media at the moment. most of the western and independent process shutdown. they ve criminalized even calling this a war rather than a special military operation. the propaganda is certainly very effective. what we see from him in the speech is we ve seen throughout this a sort of direct flipping of the narrative, this unprovoked invasion of ukraine. it was not that, in his eyes. it was nato forcing them into this by sort of encroaching on