in stockton berg has been holding a news conference on the upcoming meeting of the alliances defense ministers. he claims moscow is still ready to carry out on attack. stoles and berg has stated that nato needs to see the withdrawal of russian forces, including heavy equipment. the kremlin says, that's exactly what is happening. russia has said it is returning some troops today to, to bases after military exercises will completed. are you saying then, this isn't true or that you're not seeing any kind of change on the ground? so what we need to see is a significant on, during which all of forces troops and nobody's to have the equipment so far we have not seen. and the d escalation on the ground not seen any signs of reduced russian military purposes. so on the borders of the ukraine, russia has amassed a fighting force in their own ukraine. everything is now in place for and you attacked that was no invasion, no food of t of no aerial bombardment. those tens of thousands of troops, apparently aggressive, just because they were conducting drills on their own territory or going home.