desperation that vladimir putin is doing what we see behind us here tonight. he cannot win on the battlefield, so instead, he is turning to attacks on civilian populations it may be overwhelming by bipartisan members of congress respect that the ukrainians have fought fiercely have fought bravely and americans have stood for freedom and home and abroad for decades and decades and i find it hard to believe that we would abandon ukrainian people right now as they are facing in some ways the most challenging test of this war and this challenging test as you can see behind me is this darkness that the city and others have been plunged into rolling emergency blackouts because as you can see as they suffer their the defeats and setbacks on the battlefield the russians over the last couple of weeks as we have seen have been attacking civilian infrastructure which basically means the heart of the energy infrastructure which is designed to really try to get to the people here to essentially