i didn t know most people in ukrainian government, but when i started to kind of look them up and i recently met a number of them, i was surprised because most of them are my age. hm hm. and that is a very interesting age, we re the people that grew up in soviet union, then saw what happened when it fell apart. nineties were terrible, wild west, and then it got exposed to western culture. so this is a group of very different people that really values freedoms probably more than a lot of other people. and you ve chosen to visit, i believe twice, since the russian invasion. yeah. you have family still in ukraine. yeah. what has happened to your own family? uh, it s very brutal. i actually have very old grandmas and, you know, eighties and nineties. and, you know, one of my grandma was in the city. really it s a hero city that was bombed for over a month and held the ground, city of chernihiv. and in, say, really, kyiv and really it was heroic people. but the level of destruction. i went
businessman and often frequented by some of russia s elites. there is another hotel, second one in a village south of odesa, outside the city, and it is in a little village there, that is very close to a bridge that has been struck a lot recently, jim. this is the only bridge, only rail or road connection between the far southwest part of ukraine and the rest of the country, not really clear whether that hotels with in fact the intended target or something else. here is what the mayor of odesa had to say about the most recent round of strikes. translator: regular peace process was taking place. the curfew saved us all. some people ask why do we need these excessive measures of precaution? we can see now that they are not excessive. many said there is no way they would dare to attack a hero city on the 9th of may. they dared to attack and they did conduct a sneaky and deadly attack on the 9th of may.