edition of velshi, live from ukraine. our brand-new permanent timeslot, during my time cover the russian invasion of the last year, x folk dozens of ukrainians about the situation on the ground, including, as you ve noticed, several members of parliament who have stayed behind to fight for their country s freedom. one of those heroic individuals is enough a frequent guest on this show since the war began. i want to show you a video from last march, where she stopped along the side of the road to talk to us, to help the world they are witnessed and fully understand the atrocities that were taking place throughout ukraine. here she was, in the middle of helping ukrainian civilians flee westward to safety. i also then spoke with her again in early april. that time, it was in person, in the western city of lviv. literally hours after the world s first learned of the
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