seeing it, we had a talk earlier today about the downside of social media. obviously, the challenges, not only in our own culture, but in other cultures, how authoritarians have used it. but here is yet another example of how getting on social media can actually speak truth to power, can help undermine disinformation from russians. and let s just let s just hope that that truth keeps coming through. because, i think ukrainians, we must say that ukrainians have done an amazing job using social media to get the truth out. they have, and it s brave civilians like maria and other ukrainians who have used their phones to show and tell the truth about what s happening inside that country. the challenge is getting that truth back to the people of russia. we ll see if that happens. that does it for us this morning. we will be right back here tomorrow morning on morning joe. coming up next, jose diaz-balart will be speaking with the acting
their hands tied down behind their behind their eyes tied, and they were killed and shot in the head. horrifying images and also, that s only what they do in the city that are occupied by but, for example, in kharkiv, which is shelled every day, russian troops are using cluster munition bombs on residential areas, which are very dangerous, because they have a very big impact on people. and every day, we have new reports about more and more casualties among civilians, that are hit by russian troops. maria dava, thank you. maria is an expert in combatting russian disinformation and we thank you so much for what you are doing. you know, it is just so important, willie, and we re
in wisconsin, the wasau daily herald says tommy thompson will not launch a bid to take on the incumbent. the 80-year-old was elected governor of the state four times starting in the 1980 already cr republican field. and coming up, we ll go inside ukraine, where one resident is risking her life every day. it s an incredible story. to document what is going on inside her war-torn city. in an effort to fight against russian disinformation. she joins us next with her account from the ground. we re back in two minutes.
their own drones begin to be whittled away. that s the only hope. if we can get there, maybe we can get to a stalemate. former deputy assistant defense secretary for europe and nato, jim townsend, thank you, and would love to have you back. i was just actually reading through details on you and saw that you actually worked with both of the brzezinski boys. we may have you tell stories about working with ian at the pentagon, and narc mark afterwards. all of those stories they re in the vault. we ll have to declassify them first. thank you very much for being with us. we greatly appreciate it. ahead this hour, we ll speak with an expert on disinformation, who sent her own family out of ukraine so she could stay behind and report on the truth from inside the country. we ll also go live to the white house for the latest reporting on the new expected military aid
state media were preparing ground to delegitimize this new phase of aggression. and they will what they were doing, they were creating this ground to accuse ukraine of some kind of offensive against donbas, and it allowed putin to say that he now needs to defend donbas and that s why he says that he now needs to invade ukraine. and since that time, russia is waging also disinformation war against ukraine. putin, every day, every single day, new and new fake news and disinformation messages on russian state media, to legitimatize the ongoing aggression. and to get the support of russian population to this war. and this is pretty effective, as sad as it is. because russian citizens mostly potter what putin does in