to the white house is still, of course and successfully trying to get the american pole wheeling out of a russian prison. given his situation. how precarious is povich s situation right now? how perilous for him right now? you know again. i ve talked with several former diplomats, very senior people, and they re all using the word literally using the word bad. this is a bad situation. it bodes very poorly for what is going to happen. unfortunately they are predicting that this will be dragged out for a very long time. the implication is, you know these are serious charges and the russians. wouldn t this these us journey? uh, diplomats say they wouldn t raise charges like this unless they were intent on moving forward and prosecuting, so i think it s a very dire situation . unfortunately very worrying, jill dougherty always great to get your thoughts. thanks so much. on friday, ukraine marked
made between povich s case and your brother s case. what do you think about that? and do you think that this new case makes it more difficult for the us to secure paul s release? well i think each case can make it more difficult. it s obviously still extortion if that s what they re looking for getting concessions from the u. s government, uh, again at face value. um mr gerst povich s case sounds very much like paul s case, which sounded very much like edmund popes case and nicholas daniela s case, so there s a this lineage of the russian federal certainty and security services. uh making these attempts on american citizens and detaining them in the hopes of getting something from the u. s government. where are you with securing paul s release and working with the biden ministrations on that? we are waiting and hoping. unfortunately i think the u. s government has used a number of resources. to free americans in russia in the past to bring home trevor reid and to bring home
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effort with spain, norway, polandened portugal and the netherlands to supply kyiv with 80 leopard 2 vehicles. our next guest is a u.s. army veteran who has been fighting along ukrainians since the beginning and sharing his experience with us from the ground. we re happy to join popovich join us here. he is back in the u.s. for the first time since the start of the war. mira, thank you. we appreciate you joining us. good morning to you. thank you. you re heading back to ukraine tomorrow. your assessment of where you think this war is one year out. you ve been fighting for a year. yeah. well, you know since day one, i think the whole war was giving us, two, three days. and here we are. one year later and we are fighting back. and our armed forces have liberated much of a tierritory. it s still a long way to go. we re on the right track. of course with the sport of