this is critical to me. in the last few days i've been in constant contact with european leaders, including with ukrainian president zelensky. vice president harris met in person with the leaders in germany over the weekend at the munich conference, including president zelensky. at every step, we have shown the united states and our allies and partners are working in unison, which he hasn't been counting on, mr. putin. we're united in our support of ukraine. we are united in our opposition to russian aggression. and we're united in our resolve to defend our nato alliance. and we're united in our understanding of the urgency and seriousness of the threat russia is making to global peace and stability. yesterday, the world heard clearly the full extent of vladimir putin's twisted rewrite of history. going back more than a century, as he said eloquently noting -- i'm not going to go into it,