Those peace negotiations that have been ongoing. he spoke publicly. it s been a while since he s actually made any kind of public remarks. and he said that ukraine had violated agreements which had been reached during those talks earlier by trying to apply security guarantees to areas of ukraine which are under russian control. i want you to listen to a little more from vladimir putin. here he is. translator: now, security requirements are one thing, and the issues of regulating relations over crimea and don kbas are taken out of the scope of these agreements. that is, we have again returned to a dead end situation for ourselves and for all of us. so if peace talks according to putin are at a dead end, how can you directly link that to what will happen to the civilian population? well, they re at a dead end on both sides. because putin has been ordering these war crimes, he s also put