but it's not going particularly well for ukraine either. if it goes badly for russia and ukraine starts to take large bits of territory and russia looks like being driven out altogether, i don't see president putin saying, you know what, i've made a terrible mistake. sorry, guys, let's forget all of this. it's not going to happen. he will double down and he'll do something dramatic and unpleasant to raise the stakes. everywhere, throughout what we like to call the western world, there's major support for ukraine as it defends itself from russia's invasion. so we don't often hear news stories that are unfavorable to ukraine, that are unfavourable to ukraine, but it's ourjob as journalists to report fairly and honestly on every situation. and when our eastern europe correspondent, nick thorpe, started coming across evidence that young ukrainian men were escaping the country to avoid fighting in the war and maybe paying off ukrainian officials to help them, then he began investigating. he spoke to me from