bicycle, gathering storm be damned. ben wedeman, cnn, eastern ukraine. joining me now from washington, david sater, german scholar and author of darkness at dawn, the rise of the russian criminal state. mr. saider, thank you for your time. there is no shortage of examples of russia trying to create this link between nazis and the ukr ukrainian government. last week as the world was finding out about atrocities in bucha, in moscow, the ultra nationalist liberal democratic party proposed a law that would officially recognize the genocide of ethnic russians by ukraine providing no evidence of this widely-debunked myth. a few weeks before that, the chairman of russia s lower house said they would send evidence of acts of torture of civilians by kyiv to european governments quoted as saying this. you realize more and more the situation in ukraine with neo-nazi ideology prevails among