Now, at the same time, this was not an easy decision to make. For many weeks, Jonathan and I were actively in conversation with our German counterparts, who had reached out to us from the beginning, and also with Ukrainians to try to facilitate the conversation not only between the three of us but mainly between Germany and Ukraine, because this is also something that is between both countries.
Now, to make sure that we would keep the alliance together, and we all agreed that we need to continue to be strongly united against Putin, we needed to make sure there wouldn't be any form of pretext or any form of alibi. That's why the expression of calling Putin's bluff is the one that we're using, because clearly that is what we're doing.