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Plan, that the resistance is way mother than anticipated, and of course the fear is that he could up the ante in terms of how aggressive the campaign is. >> i think absolutely. the state news wire published an article on saturday that looked like it had been written in advance and published by the state because it was written as if russia had already won the war in ukraine in just a few days. and it said that putin had decided to solve the ukrainian question once and for all. and ukraine would be reorganized and divided into some sort of new arrangement. and they took this article down, but it...

Ukraine prepared to negotiate in good faith. because putin said the other day we are open for dialogue, but our core interests are not negotiable. and what that seems to mean is we're ready for talks but only if you do everything we want, and we don't make any concessions. and that's not going to work. >> yeah, which is not a great sign. a lot is being done by russian authorities to stop criticism at home, even banning media outlets from using the word invasion and so on. and i read where you tweeted about wartime repression. what links are being taken to keep the lid on criticism? and what do...

And the ukrainians have the advantage of fairly long border with nato, with several nato countries where they can get reply. it's still debatable how far the russians would push. and if they collapsed kyiv and kharkiv, would they go to the west and secure that territory? it would be a stretch for them. insurgencies take time to build momentum. so i think they wouldn't necessarily be revealed at the outset how effective. but over time i think it would certainly sap the will and the might of the military, and also start changing opinions back home that he might have to respond to. >> you mention...

And so it's possible that the talks that we mentioned, if they fail, russia can always use those to say that ukraine isn't taking the talks seriously. so it will have to intensify its assault. you had the leader of chechnya, one of putin's most revered henchman saying they should intensify their assault. that means what they did in chechnya during the separatist war there's where they essentially reduced them to rubble. and speaking of rubble, you have the ruble is already down 30% before trading has even begun in russia, and the central bank has been pushing back trading today because of thes...

Untrue information. for example saying zelenskyy has left kyiv and all the videos were prerecorded. this is having an impact on the public perception to the war on china. decidedly the monitor and the social media platform. if you read through the comments they are largely pro-russia and putin. a lot of cheers and applause. many rooting for russia to win. disparaging terms thrown at ukraine and leaders. it's a very -- >> only because i want to ask you this next question. very quickly. china apparently was caught off guard by putin's military action. and china hasn't told citizens living in ukr...