compulsory service. that means you have to call them up, then you have to train them three, four, six months before they can go into any kind of meaningful action. >> exactly. >> there you may have superiority of numbers. if they continue to fight as volunteers, and they have a lot of trained reservists. because they have experience fighting in the donbas, fighting the russians. >> we've seen a lot of them on the streets as well. i'm going to leave it there, pavel. thank you so much. appreciate you joining us here. for a third time in a week, the u.s. and its allies ramping up the pressure on russia's economy over its invasion of ukraine. moscow was slapped with two rounds of sanctions earlier, including some that personally targeted president putin. u.s. president joe biden did not mince words when he explained that decision.