Welcome to the show, everyone. it is 9:00 a.m. here in lviv, ukraine, and there is a flurry of diplomatic meetings today to push for peace yet again as russia ramp up strikes on ukraine. now, in the coming hours, u.n. secretary-general will be meeting russian president vladimir putin. the meeting in moscow. they ll be having a working lunch with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. and in germany secretary-general lloyd austin will be holding a meeting on usually at ramstein air because. nato secretary-general ian stole enberg is expected to be there as well. this coming after austin and u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in kyiv and that happened on sunday. they re the highest-level u.s.