christopher pissarides joining me this morning.ore on the economic impacts around europe of these gas prices, and the war in ukraine, lizzy burden in london. bruce einhorn joins me from singapore. roos, -- bruce, what more do we know about actions from the united states to ukraine? >> there is a new package the u.s. is likely to announce today. it would be worth $3 billion. that would be the largest single package of military aid the u.s. has provided to ukraine since the start of the war. this comes a day after german chancellor olaf scholz announced a german package of military systems worth about 500 million euro. there have been questions people have raised about whether there is going to be a falloff in support for ukraine among the western allies as the war drags on. so far what we are seeing from these announcements is that the support is still there from western governments. manus: and of course we have the fallout from alexander dugin's daughter. let's talk about that also as well. >> the issue is russia has accused estoni