hard line polishes and you had a lot of clout in order to, to wield against halting journalist michael pender and tokyo for us. thank you, michael. thank you. now to russia, a president vladimir putin as worn, that moscow's offensive in ukraine has barely begun. he also accused the west of fueling the war and said that its efforts to defeat him would bring tragedy to ukraine. he was speaking to parliamentary leaders and here's some of what he had to say to renew my exclusion. we're hearing that they want to defeat us up. will you on the battlefield? what can i say is good? we let them try. museum the we have often heard the west wants us to fight it until the last ukrainian it that there it's a tragedy the ukrainian people. oh, but it looks like it's heading in that direction. no to those ones. but everybody should know that largely speaking. sure. that we haven't even yet started anything in earnest. 3 of them at the same time, we don't refuse peace talks, but those who refuse should no longer it last, the more difficult will be for them to make a deal with us sledging year. him would send t