Although everybody accepts it as problem and that russia is continuing these diplomatic engagements not so much in good faith but allows them to get their ducks in a row to go ahead with some military invasion, but if one is to take the russians at their word it certainly would appear for people in ukraine that the longer diplomacy is still an option the more time they have and hopefully the more diminished the risk of somewhere because there s a very real understanding on the ground here that while most ukranians are patriots and believe that their army would fight very hard to resist russian aggression they also understand that russia is one of the most sophisticated in the world and it would be devastating if there was an invasion. and we do have reporting that russia has also been sending ....