associate professor of political science and international relations at the university of john inspect, david manya. many thanks for joining us on the program. really appreciate your time . so we'd like to know what's your take on the significance of this upcoming summit in june and how it plays into the developing relations between russia and african countries? indeed, i think this is an important funded like all the other summits. i think the clearest way of looking at it is that the african union developed strategic partnership document that informs the continent for in, for the, for africa to develop. it requires assistance and working with a number of partners which include the united states, china, european union, russia army, quite a number of other players. and i doubt very much that the african continent to be pull it. avoiding one single player. russia, in this instance, is they act and move to this summit collectively as africa. and i think that they're enough mechanisms of defending themselves against unnecessary pressure coming from washington and not to relate as well as have trait wi