Their initial assault on the capitol of kyiv, which was embarrassingly repelled. kharkiv is continuing to be bombed. that s a city that s part of the eastern section of the country that is part of russia s ambition. it looks like russia wants to take the whole east, the russian speaking part and bring their dominion all the way across through mykaliev, essentially going way toward this other goal, which looks like reconstituting some of the old soviet union. this was a very, very threatening development. and it goes to show the mentality that vladimir putin and the russians have. they have said time and time again and vladimir putin we heard years ago saying the