Thank you, Alan Johnston, Financial Times.

Question about comments by António Costa saying that the EU has the potential to negotiate with Putin,

the war in Ukraine.

What was changed to enable that and are there discussions with leaders as to who would be a good interlocutor for those,

potential negotiations? You want to start or? You want to start? You can start. You can start.

Sorry, I wasn't sure who would reply first.

So, from, first of all, let me, frame it by, recalling,

a message that the president has posted on social media.

I believe yesterday evening, I will read it out,

she has written on social media for Orthodox Easter Russia proposed a ceasefire only to intensify its brutal attacks on Ukraine.

Almost 8000 violations of the ceasefire they proposed.

Now a ceasefire proposed only to guarantee a pause for the Red Square celebrations.

Today's, well, that was yesterday's air strikes on Ukraine once again show Russia is not serious when it talks of ceasefire. Or peace.

The only way to stop human suffering and allow space for meaningful peace talks is to stop the killing immediately and agree on a long-term ceasefire. So this is the framing.

We have Russia that is demonstrating by the fact that it has other intentions unfortunately than reaching a peace agreement.

And of course what we're aiming at is a just and lasting peace for Ukraine. Now on your specific question.

Perhaps what I can say is that of course we are involved in negotiations and Arianna can confirm from his side the negotiations are taking place in different formats in different places and different levels involving heads of state and government,

ministers, senior diplomats, and officials.

We can see the merit of having one single figure speaking on behalf of the 27.

Of course we need to see Russia's willingness to. Engage in serious peace talks. Anouar, you're welcome to contribute to this. Thank you very much. Thank you, Arianna.

Indeed, I will add from my side also referring to the press public remarks by the High Representative that she delivered today in Chisinau in the context of her visit to Moldova because she touched on the issue.

In addition to that, let's also be quite clear.

Putin's appalling war of aggression against Ukraine excludes business as usual.

Position, and this is something that she has been very vocal on,

is that we need to get Russia from a position where Russia pretends to negotiate to where they need to actually negotiate.

As to us, the EU,

we fully fully support the U.S.led peace efforts and we hope that they will lead to Russia accepting negotiations on peace instead of continuing aggression on Ukraine. What have we seen?

We have seen that Moscow has not changed its goal nor its Actions. Other questions for Arianna?

Not the case as far as I can see. Thanks, Arianna.

Other questions for us today on different matters. I have a number of hands raised. Let's go here in the press room.