Undoubtedly complicate whatever message vladimir putin trying to give to the russian people on may the 9th, nicolle. cal, stay with us. tom, i want to bring you in on your piece and on what we ve been saying about your piece but one more question for you. do the attacks inside russia make may 9th more fraught for ukraine and the west? i don t think so, because the russian media obviously isn t going to spend a lot of time on them. i think the bigger issue is that the russian military feels humiliated and that the attacks inside russia, you know, that doesn t help that sense of humiliation but they ve been losing battles for two months to the ukrainians and they re going to want some kind of acknowledgement and something to show for the immense and almost staggeringly incompetent losses