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
it was the calculated extermination of the ukrainian people. winterkill makes the intentional nature of that genocide clear. utilizing language that is appropriate for kids and frank imagery. the book is unflinching and relentless. the reader, like it s characters, cannot escape starvation or stolen s iron rule. quote, what would it take for stalin to realize it was his policies, not his so-called kulaks, who were the enemy of the people? end quote. between the stark descriptions of children looking from hunger and dark, assembly lines in kharkiv, it s a story of people who are not just set on survival, but set on maintaining their beloved culture. they collect traditional songs. they quietly could duck traditional funerals. they briefly face rushes shock workers to keep family air looms and smuggle outflows of the carnage. there is a clear in writing this book for children from a child s perspective, because the children of this country are