to ukraine but we should commit troops to poland because we have made them promises we should keep. there is a lot of... i get the fact that there is turmoil in europe, i understand that and i am sympathetic and to the polish situation and the baltic states, the same way but it doesn't mean i don't think we shouldn't send troops into ukraine when we have sanctions that we haven't undertaken yet.- when we have sanctions that we haven't undertaken yet. let's bring in alexander vindman, a retired us army lieutenant colonel who oversaw the trump administration's ukraine policy. he is of some ukrainian descent, as well. let me get your reaction to the announcement tonight from moscow. what does it mean? what does it mean that the duma and the kremlin is going to recognise donetsk and lugansk as independent states? it donetsk and lugansk as independent states? . . donetsk and lugansk as independent states? . , ., ., states? it means we are almost certainly at — states? it means we are almost certainly at the _ states? it means we are almost certainly at the end _ states? it means we are almost certainly at the end of- states? it means we are almost. certainly at the end of diplomatic negotiations that are going on. what we have _ negotiations that are going on. what we have now is the last closure of