against russian separatists forces in eastern ukraine, pipeline attacks, things like that, attacks on civilians, and the need for russia to respond. there are russian military exercises plan for this week, as well, is that correct? >> there are, yes. one of the other things that came up today is, we've been waiting for kind of a date for russia's strategic nuclear exercises. usually they run those in the fall, they signaled that they moved him up to right about now. they waited till tonight to announce that, they are doing those tomorrow, and that is going to be kind of a big picture nuclear effort involving multiple branches of their nuclear forces. and vladimir putin, they made very clear, is helping those exercises, he's going to be the one with a suitcase on the red button. i think you can kind of safely interpret that as a bit of a flex right now, because they are still saying that they are open to the policy. as we learned yesterday, in their official response to u.s.