reinforcements, the bull a russians would pour over the border. they are under the sovereign control of the lukashenko regime. putin wields nearly absolute control over that country. we've seen that in recent days. and that's our concern going forward. >> we talked about the phone call between the french, germans and putin the last week. there are reports jerusalem could be the site of peace talks. what's the view of the united states and the role israel is playing in trying to make -- to broken peace, in trying to make those peace talks happen? >> well, there are a number of countries with whom we're working very closely, jonathan, on coordinated diplomatic efforts. we were in europe earlier this week. we met with lapid. he briefed secretary blinken and the team on prime minister bennett's efforts to engage in diplomacy. our french allies have done the same on the way back to the united states earlier this week we stopped in paris.