let him put in the top level, ron dave, who began with some warm greetings earlier today in a brief televised. welcome are about to show you and we had as a media conference coming up imminently. oh, playing just with oh, we actually caught a glimpse into this meeting between micron and putin, where a several of the points that micron was making earlier today were reiterated the fact that both russia and the western world need to find common ground to avoid war and to be honest, this meeting between puttin and mac, ron actually came as a bit of a shock to many people. the french president has come out in strong support of diplomacy when it comes to these height and tensions around ukraine. and that's something that has no doubt been unsettling for the more hawkish voices in the west . now, in the run up to this meeting, mac, ron even said that russia's goal was not to conquer ukraine. this is something that we've rarely been hearing in the western world. we must protect till european brothers by proposing a new balance capable of preserving their sovereignty in peace. this must be done while