reza aslan joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes that s what russia seems to be carrying out in its war against ukraine. earlier today russian forces bombarded the city of zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people and wounding dozens of others. the shelling was concentrating on number apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. marking a clear instance of vladimir putin s invading army roth laws of war. upstanding doubly, the strikes serve as a particularly dastardly reprisal for ukrainian military games on the battlefield against russia in recent weeks. the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive brae ridge linking rachel what the kremlin peninsula. a critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western a
Zelenskyy s also being doubling down on his pr savvy lack ridging the soft power of his now huge global celebrity status. and that is some of the newfound friends. to bring more attention to the ukrainian cause. one such a newfound friend, hero of the battle of jedi master and veteran freedoms biden mark hamill. yes, i kid you not, lou skywalker himself and the farm boy who shot up torpedoes into an exhaust pipe besides a war brad to deserve the fourth death star. part in that moment after being named an ambassador for the official fund raising arm of the ukraine government earlier this year. animals turning s attention to the army of drones, a program aimed at supporting ukrainian effort through a contribution of unmanned aerial vehicles. aka, drone nations. because unfortunately, sometimes when you re fighting a reactionary totalitarian