Helen Walters

Now, it seems, as you say, reports are differing as to the number of planes that were actually lost, but it seems like Russia has lost about a third of its strategic bombers in the raid so far.

That's more than $7 billion in damage.

I'm also curious, you said that they can't rebuild these planes.

Really stupid question, but why not?

Thank you so much.

So clearly, whatever the final numbers, this has been extraordinarily damaging for Russia.

And in response, on Sunday, they launched, as I've heard it, 472 drones, three ballistic missiles and four cruise missiles at Ukraine.

What should we also expect from Russia going forward?

And do you think that Ukraine is actually ready for it?

The realistic, the Bremer take on all of that, if you're not playing optimist and you're not playing pessimist, where do you think we really are and who is in the position, therefore, of trying to prevent nuclear disaster or this spilling into a bigger war?

Is that Trump?

So I'm curious about the connection between Russia and China and wonder if you can give us a little bit of context on how that relationship actually works.

You say China does not want Russia to launch a nuke on Ukraine.

How does that actually work?

Just as a kind of a geopolitical kind of relationship, how do they make their intentions known?

Why do they care what Russia does in Ukraine?

Tell us more about that relationship and the kind of leverage that China has over Russia.

So you mentioned the peace talks, which strangely, I don't know how much you think this was all timed.

Obviously, the operation was a year and a half in the making.

The peace talks ended a couple of hours ago today.