>> this mindset about ukraine, the crimea for example, what a terrible disaster it was when the soviet union collapsed. putin is somewhat of a throwback to a previous era. the great russian and buyer. -- russian inempire. the number one foreign policy objective is dominance of the former soviet space and especially ukraine. >> they are the places where russian language has a prominent play within certain provinces. >> the russians have a very expensive official definition of russian citizens. any russian speaker. >> do believe putin is responding to that? this has been a response -- he got himself involved in this and did certain things. wants a strategy to take over