and exploiting contradiction. and putting out a lot of different stories. if you look at the message from here, russia would say, yes, we are pulling back some troops, not all but some. and that those exercises in belarus, some are coming to an end, et cetera. but you know, obviously the contradictions just keep another ball in the air. and president putin himself, look at what he said over the past couple of days. he said we want diplomacy to continue but at same time he was using this word genocide, which is really a hot-button word to accuse ukrainian government of carrying out genocide against russian speakers in that critical donbas region. the russian speakers in the eastern part of ukraine. so, i think, you know, overall this can work for president putin by keeping the contradictions going, by keeping