fighting just for itself. it is fighting for everyone and the whole world must stop putin because he won t stop with ukraine. the family told us before they left moscow, in the beginning days of the war, they were talking to some of the their friends in moscow and they said they were shocked to hear from people they considered themselves close to that they were repeating the lines of russian propaganda. that the ukraine government was fash. is, that they were drug addicts as we so often hear from russian state media, and that played a role in their decision to leave. jake? matt rivers, thank you so much. coming up, the spike in covid cases in the u.s. and the key factor that might explain why so many have e resisted bringing bk mask mandates. ststay with us. and the vegetables that you re e growing. find more ways to grow at miracacle-gro.com
it is a unit for the organization. and yes. before the war, starting from 2015, i was working with disinformation, disinformation narratives, coming not only from russia but from other countries. primarily russia and china. actually, but yes. the last two years, working facebook and continuing to work with facebook, countries with disinformation. there is a lot right now. i think u.s. also got that part of the, of this disinformation. so you fought against the russians as they were advancing on kyiv. what was that like? i think it was, it felt really scary. it was my first night in
know this will be a different fight in the east. it will be a more consolidated russian forceful one where they have more fire power, more raw strength focused into a specific geographic area. but they ll be going up against ukrainians, the most experienced ukrainian troops. and they are confident they can hold out if they get the support they need from western allies. the military weapons and such. today putin met with the austrian chancellor, carl, for 75 minutes in moscow. he says it was not a friendly visit. he is not particularly optimistic from the talks. what do you make of the face to face meeting? he is the first to meet since the start of the war. austria is militarily neutral. but as the chancellor says, not morally neutral. this is a chancellor only yesterday was talking with streets of bucha, seeing for himself the aftermath of russia s occupation. so his messages to putin were blunt. effectively, this is on you. there must be accountability for
as the russian invasion of ukrainian rages on, citizens in georgia, the republic of georgia are anxiously watching what s unfolding. the former soviet state was attacked by russia 14 years ago. putin s forces still occupy much of that country. and now from georgia s capital, worried they could be putin s next target if he succeeds here in ukraine. reporter: this person was born in georgia. he just didn t think he would be back here quite yet. his family moved to russia 30 years ago, fleeing the georgian civil war. it was in moscow they built a life. where he met his wife anya and where his kids were born. he s told them truth about the horrors of the current war in ukraine and said he worried what would happen if one of the teachers echoed putin s
propaganda that this war is just. he knows what is really going. and he will say no. you are not right. and it will be trouble for him. reporter: you are worried about your son. yes, yes. reporter: so the family left for georgia a if you days after the war began. though anya isn t completely sure they ll be safe here either. if no one stops putin, she says, he can easily go both to georgia and the west. and she is not alone in her fears. georgians have a long brutal history with russia. russian troops invaded in 2008 and thousands of troops remain in two breakaway provinces of georgia. in 1989, in the capital, nearly two dozen protesters were killed and hundreds were injured by soviet troops as they advocated for independence. people gathered over the weekend outside the parliament building to mark the anniversary of that massacre. georgian flags this year joined