michael purcell director of operations at the center for global interests gentlemen welcome to the program pavel let me start with you we're seeing strong pictures coming out of siberia what is the main message here. well day's. exercises or actually war games happening in the russian far east are really a big deal there's a lot of russian troops being mobilized and moved forward it's happening from the arctic in the pacific and in. the far east and partially in siberia but the main ground action is going to happen in the transom by cowher zakk by call yet region which is actually north of the chinese border russian them exercises happened there is a regular basis and always before they had that bit of a kind of over town that this could be oh so posh way to be prepared for a process of a clash with russia china and so this time for then to be no kind of speculations on that the russian military invited the chinese contingent that they part also contingent small contingent from mongolia so a chinese brigade size force over three thousand men would about thirty aircraft have been deployed t