let's speak to michael bassetti, if he's a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council eurasia center and a former spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. he joins us from viv in ukraine. thank you for your time. i stop fast with your reaction to vladimir putin se ferry speech last night where he formerly recognized these to break away regions of ukraine, controlled by these russian back separatists. did you see it is coming? good to be with you? i yes, i saw coming actually. i've been predicting it for weeks that president putin would take formal control over a territory. he's actually been controlling informally since 2014 through the russian back tags. the speech last night was nothing short of blood curdling. it was coming from a man who i believe has no intention at stopping at the so called front line, dividing the occupied and government control areas of ukraine is the big fear here at the moment is that he will actually try and take control of the other parts of all i can do that, they basically control at the moment about one 3rd of those