katarzyna pisarska, let me start with you.is your reaction to what we heard, those mixed messages from vladimir putin opened one hand endorsing the idea of diplomacy but also saying the u.s. and n.a.t.o. failed to meet his demands? >> let's be honest, it's not been good week for vladimir putin. this past few days we've seen unprecedented unity on the side of many a.t.o. member states. for the first time, really trying to put together sanctions that would hurt. from the united kingdom declaring that it will sanction oligarchs, russian oligarchs living in the u.k., and nothing is off the table here, to denmark or, of course, the ball tick states, poland alrea sending arms to ukraine. so vladimir putin sees that the western alliance, that the n.a.t.o. allegiance is extremely serious. >> reporter: thomas kleine-brockhoff, is that how you see it? western unity in the face of russian aggression? >> that europeans disagreed with each other would be nothing unusual. that's what happens all the time with europeans and they have the com