Been speaking out about this. that was interesting. it seems he s at a point where he perhaps can t avoid addressing that. i don t know whether it signals further mobilization, but i think as a whole, the speech, his appearance today, this sort of show of force doesn t signal he s backing away. no, he doesn t seem like he s backing away or doubling down in any sort of way. one thing really that he didn t address, perhaps obvious reasons, were sanctions. you and i have spoken at great length about the sanctions that have been applied from the west on russia. have they started from what you ve seen, claire, have they started to have an impact on russian economy? reporter: so, in some ways yes, in some ways not as much as you would expect. the russian central bankers put out a forecast that basically agrees with world institutions, the imf and world bank the economy is set to shrink 10% this year. it could have been worse than that 23 we get an energy embargo