All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Ukraine.

Let's focus on some statements coming out of NATO and the statements from NATO.

Follow the Russian foreign ministry.

We're called in the UK ambassador and the French ambassador, and they issued ultimatums to both of those ambassadors.

This also follows on the announcement from the Russian Ministry of Defense that Russia will

be conducting tactical nuclear drills.

So we had all of this escalation a couple of days ago, and now it looks like we have a de-escalation. At least that's how it

looks. I do want to say that we still have statements coming out of specifically Lithuania,

I would say. Lithuania is saying, let's send trainers into Ukraine, both the prime minister

and the foreign minister in UK media.

They gave interviews to the Financial Times and to the Guardian, and they said that trainers

should be sent to Ukraine, and they support the plans of Macron and of Cameron. And we also have a statement from

Donald Tusk where he admitted that there are troops in Ukraine, though he said they're engineers

and advisors and stuff like that. So we do have some countries which are still talking up

escalation, but most of the rhetoric coming out of the collective Western NATO is moving towards de-escalation.

What are your thoughts?

Absolutely. And I think decisively so. Notice that Macron himself has been saying an awful

lot less over the last few days. He's been avoiding this subject.

And the same is true about the British government.

The British government, what they've done is something completely different.

They haven't really commented about this.

They haven't really discussed the fact that their ambassador was called into the Russian foreign ministry.

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