and once russia went into ukraine, february 24th, i had this nagging feeling that i needed to do something more. so i quit my job and headed to ukraine to see basically at first it was to see what kind of trouble i could get into. i didn t want to fight. you know, i ve had my share of that. i wanted to help in different ways. and, you know, as my time in ukraine kept going on, civilians just kept getting injured and killed from these left behind land mines, clusters, or anything else you can imagine that s an explosive hazard. and i knew from my time as a special forces engineer that i could help in that way. and so that s what i dedicated my life to, was returning to ukraine and helping de-mine here. your work in ukraine involves searching for land mines and
they re telling people, don t come back to her sun city just yet. let us de-mine the area. let us make the area safe for civilians before people come back alex. i gotta tell, you are almost in tears just looking at the joy in people s faces, listening to it, it s pretty darn cool. what a wonderful time. and that one man who took his time saying, it feels like victory is coming. let s all hope. thank you so much molly. what i think they re doing is slow rolling our victory. they want to take the air out of this movement. and they can t do it. let s go back to the midterm elections now with just inform that there are 1000 outstanding votes to count in the key state of arizona. you just heard that trump back election denier kari lake accusing officials of slowing the vote count as she trails incumbent katie hobbs by just over 30,000 votes. but arizona election officials are hitting back. they are already working 14
of releasing grain from the ports, which have been mined by the ukrainians and which the ukrainians are bound to de mine. earlier, i spoke to onur erem from bbc turkish and i asked him what he knows about the ship, the zhibek zholy, and why it s been seized. it is russian flagged, it s owned by a kazakh company and it s chartered to a russian company. the bbc investigation found out that it shut down its transponders in the end of last month in the sea of asov, and then it got its load from the ukrainian town of berdyansk, which is under russian occupation. this ship came to turkey on friday, on the 1st ofjuly, and we know that this ship is carrying 7000 tonnes of grain thanks to a telegram post of russian appointed governor of the region, yevhen balytskyi, so the ukrainian authorities made this application for turkey to seize it. they claim that the grain