it is general phillip breedlove. he said russia has chosen to be adversary and pose as long term existential threat to the united states and to your european allies and partners. it goes on to say, russia doesn't want to challenge the agreed rules of international order, it wants to rewrite them. is that your assessment of state of russia under vladmir putin as far as their role on international scene? >> senator, i don't have a problem with that characterization at all. >> then let me ask about ukraine. a ukrainian activist wrote about minsk-2, called it a. here is his quote. russia does nothing to simply mint the agreement, the u.s. and e.u. are forcing minsk-2 down kiev, and easier to put pressure on ukraine to accept bad terms than forcing pressure on including sanctions on russia, end quote. i seem to share those views it appears russia is perfectly comfortable what they do as frozen conflict in the region. obviously some of what they're doing in syria is distracting attention. we don't talk about ukraine nearly