met with volodymyr zelenskyy. a pretty powerful gesture there from the united states government, this comes as ukraine marks orthodox easter ahead of the high holiday. a french priest has been speaking to ukrainians, but rather than celebrating mass he s interviewing victims and witnesses of russian atrocities. those accounts will be used for future war crimes prosecution. he believes that the atrocities kit and mary opal where the worst in bucha, historian and author timothy snyder, longest regret about russian brutality in a new york times op-ed this week he shares a new word that ukrainians have invented to describe russian facet them, which directly translates to rush-ism, he joins me now tim is oppressor history at yale university in blood lands, europe between hitler and stalin, has been updated and reissued in paperback. tim, thanks so much for coming back on the show. before putin s invasion many in the west would ve been hard-pressed to list the
those accounts will be used for future war crimes prosecution. he believes that the atrocities kit and mariupol where the worst is in bucha, historian and author timothy snyder, longest regret about russian brutality in a new york times op-ed this week he shares a new word that ukrainians have invented to describe russian facism, which directly translates to ruscism, he joins me now tim is oppressor history at yale university in blood lands, europe between hitler and stalin, has been updated and reissued in paperback. tim, thanks so much for coming back on the show. before putin s invasion many in the west would ve been hard-pressed to list the differences between russia and ukraine. but you argue that those differences are significant and even putin seems to miss them. you say in your op-ed quote, russians don t understand ukrainians because they have not learned it, ukrainians do understand russian, because they have learned it. this fact has battlefield implications. how so? wel