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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 on the air this weekend. we thank you for watc ....
And then they largely continue on with their the day. for my team and me, if an arid sirens go off during the show, we will need to leave this location to go to a more secure place. so if that does happen, my friend and colleague, alex witt, has been standing by for the last hour in new york to pick up coverage until i m all said and saved to rejoin you. she still continues to do that, and i thank you for that, alex. something else that s evident, no matter who you talk to here in ukraine is while much of the west views of this as nearing the one year anniversary of russia s invasion, on friday, ukrainians consider this to be almost at the ninth year. in february of 2014, russia invaded crimea, illegally annexing the peninsula, and then in april of that year, russia invaded don bask, in eastern ukraine, where world war i style trenches and warfare has been technically going on ever since then. and right now, that fighting is focused along the front in the east, not far from where it wa ....