Thank you, Mr. Ruff.
I'll take the next five minutes.
I want to direct the first question to General Prévost.
The general consensus seems to be that President Putin is stalled. It follows from this that people are surprised. People who look at this are surprised that this has not been a very successful campaign. Yet, surely to goodness, there is a pattern in President Putin's behaviour. If you look back to Chechnya, he had initial success, and then it was really a brutal campaign. It was similar in Syria—initial success and then really a brutal campaign.
We appear to be in a similar pattern. I'd be interested in your thoughts on this. There was some initial success. When you look at a map of Ukraine, there has been some significant penetration into the country by Russian forces. But now they're either stalled or prepared to shell civilians and non-military targets, which is very similar to what Chechnya looked like and very similar to what Syria looked like. The real question is this: For how long are we prepared to let this pattern continue?