From helsinki finland. i actually circled it in my notepad. the west did not want to listen to russia. they had other plans. how did you interpret what you heard today? reporter: yeah, those were the so-called security guarantees and proposals that russia offered the west mid december last year and waited sometime for a written response, and those security guarantees were really interpreted as demands. and putin has sort of continued to use that as a stick with which to beat nato and say that nato didn t want this, that it didn t wasn t going to give russia what it wanted. in fact, russia rather, nato was building up its forces in ukraine, hundreds of trainers, he said, sending in sophisticated weapons. it really was a rehash, reamplification of everything