then now the w. russel's bureau chief, i saw phenomena has been following as it has these remarks that it's down to uh, what are you will take away from this person? well, i thought that it was quite remarkable. how swayed forward president zelinski was and he had a very clear message to the europeans stressing that what you play needs right now are at least 19 or defense systems to protect its people and its energy infrastructure. then he went on saying that ukraine does be more weapons and that was of course, a clear, a hint at the you opinions that there are not delivering enough despite older promises. he also spoke about a potential ceasefire, which is her to what you have to say about that. and she made clear that putting from his perspective is not willing to have any now get negotiations. and then for ukraine, even though they wants to have peace with their country, it's important to have security guarantees from their partners. and of course, on top of their agenda is a membership in nature. and he was also ask about donalds trump in his press conference and about to the emoti

w. and what do you think will happen to those russell naval russian naval base is in syria. so i think the russian government is going to try and at most to keep those basis. and we already see the russian government taking steps to the end for, for example, they have already reached out to the, to the new government, whatever odd shape. it's taking place, we don't really know either of the russian embassy had flown the flag of syria position in, in syria. and that, that's also the indicator lastly, russian mainstream, a state media had stopped referring to syrian opposition as terrorist, which is something they've done consistently over the years. so we don't know, but certainly rush has tried very hard. and is it clear what this new government thinks of must go? give them the most of a backed us that well, it's based. yes. even in, even before taking over as the offensive or high continued, it made fairly moderate statements about pressure. they'll moderate compared to, to previous statements. that is, they said they're not the one with the russian people. and these statem

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