if the other side doesn't, as ukraine is not, it says it has done so anyway. it turns that is of course a completely false, and i'm struck in listening to the ukrainian ambassador, how calm he is, which is a contrast, not just with the mendacity of the russian ambassador, but also with the hysteria of president putin's speech earlier. today. he was very wide ranging rhetoric to explain what he was doing. >> putin today said modern-day ukraine was full and on whole created by russia. he basically gave the russian people a history lesson about ukraine. what would you, what are your comments on that history lesson? >> it was surreal for me. i actually was taking part, as mr. putin was speaking, in the examination of a doctoral dissertation by a young retrain