the attack. and fighting in the luhansk region has been raging for months, and it has ramped up in recent weeks as russia s refocused invasion on eastern ukraine. michael as you know with the atlantic council is with me the last hour or two hours, i ve lost time. s thank you, scott, for joining us. i want to get to president zelenskyy s message. we ve heard president putin s message. what is president zelenskyy saying? so much has been made of this may 9 victory celebrated on may 8 in the rest of europe. but because of the time difference on that date in 1945, the russians celebrated a day later. the russians have been framing this entire huwar as a battle against the nazification of ukraine. that s the way they re framing it. ukrainians feel that is a ridiculous premise. the thing that stood out to me