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Question. >> reporter: and again, peculiar the way the statement was put out and certainly times of timing. sergey lavrov and antony blinken had just met. they believe that a compromise in some way, shape, or form might be possible. i'm wondering from you, having covered so much in the region and now on the ground in ukrainian, are ukrainians hopeful that there might be some kind of compromise here? >> reporter: i don't think there's a huge amount of optimism on the ground that a compromise will be found. at the same time, the foreign ministry did say that they were pleased that diplomacy has ...