ukraine. it is 5 pm. it s been nearly one year since russia s unprovoked invasion of this country. i was in ukraine last spring, in lviv, in the west of the country. i am back now to see what s changed, what s stayed the same, and what is next for this war and for this country, and for the global fight for democracy. the ukrainians what the rest of the world to know it s a critical part of this fight. one thing that remains the same as russia continues to rain terror from the skies in the form of missiles, rockets, airstrikes, and drones, both near the battlefield in the east and in places far from the front. in places like lviv, and right here in the capital, kyiv. it is something that is very evident. the air raid sirens have become a part of everyday life here. there have been multiple air raid sirens each day, and while most ukrainians have come to live with them, they hear, they acknowledge, them and they largely continue on with their day. for my team and me on the grou
short on. matching its rhetoric, with the kind of support ukrainians to win this war, not just for ukraine, but for the u.s. and u.s. national security. we re gonna watch then very closely, president biden arrives in the region on monday. he will be delivering an important speech on tuesday. we ll see if any of that changes. colonel, may we not be talking about this and a year, or at least be talking about it as history, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, is the former director of european foreign affairs at the national security council. he s the author of the important book, here right matters. an american story. should, ahead more on the war in ukraine as we approach the one year anniversary another hour of velshi, live from kyiv, begins right now. begins right now good morning to you, it is saturday, february the 18th, welcome to our new home. a 10 am and 11 am eastern, our show is celebrating three years on the air this weekend. we thank you for watching u
one little city of bakhmut, and they ve gained some territory, but a year an, they re fighting for inches, losing thousands of troops. ukraine, on the other hand, has been consistently underestimated. they can apply a combined, arm artillery, infantry, armor together. they can t come down offensive operations. all sorts of different criticisms, and you think that after a year, would probably calibrated better our analysis of both russian capabilities, and ukrainian capabilities, but thus far, we haven t. that s just one of, you know, probably a couple of a handful of critical shortfalls we ve had. the other one is that our rhetoric often doesn t match it out the kind of support we offer. we have flowery rhetoric indicating that this is a geopolitical crisis that is essential for the u.s. to help ukraine win. but the same time, we are deeply reluctant to provide ukraine support. the biden administration gets a lot of credit for the things it does. but frankly, i d like to focus on the