pro russian separatists in the east of ukraine. the kremlin spokesman said that's something that the, president putin's diplomatic representative from the russian presidency will raise tomorrow in paris with the ukrainian representative, and the german and french representative at the normandy format talks. this is talks that began seven years ago to get over the, russia's initial invasion of ukraine in 2014. it deals with the so-called minsk two agreement. this seems to be an area where the president thinks he might get some concessions. this is a potential opportunity. because france and germany, who will sit at the table as well, do not have quite as strong a position as the u.k., for