we are seeing russian openness to conversations. but the intelligence we are seeing today is still not encouraging. we still have russian field hospitals been constructed near the border with ukraine and belarus and a can only be construed as a preparation for an invasion. more battalion tactical groups closer to the border. and according to the intelligence that we are seeing. mixed signals, i think, to the intelligence that we are seeing. mixed signals, ithink, at the moment. mixed signals or not, diplomacy with russia continues. this is germany's chancellor meeting vladimir putin in moscow today. olaf scholz said war in europe was unthinkable, but diplomacy wasn't exhausted. president putin was asked in a news conference if he could exclude the possibility of war in europe.