miss my conversation with comedian, sam joe. welcome to the show. i m mehdi hassan. three months ago, russia launched its war on ukraine and we all thought it might be over in a few days. u.s. intel predicted kyiv would fall quickly to russian paratroopers. that didn t happen, thankfully. not only have the ukrainians defend themselves over the last few months, with the help of the western world, but they ve gone on the offensive. ukrainian troops, this, week two we took land around the area of kharkiv, ruining russian plans for a blitzkrieg offensive. in fact, ukraine s defense ministry put out a video russian border, pushing russian invaders back on to their own turf. nbc news has not confirmed where or when that video was shot. according to the u k depends ministry, russia sacked two generals. one of who was responsible for kharkiv. meanwhile, the pipeline of the remains open, and more european nations are seeking to join the alliance itself. most recently, finl