Hello and welcome to this special episode of Battleground Ukraine with me, Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Well, today we're traveling through central Ukraine on a train,

but before we give you our considered response to Trump's inauguration address, we're actually

going to go back a few hours and listen to our immediate reaction as we watch the speech

with a bunch of comrades in a restaurant in the center of the embattled city of

Kharkiv just 25 miles from the Russian border.

Here they are in Kharkiv, about 30 miles from Russia.

My favorite city in the world where I call the capital of freedom because everyone

here believes in is willing to face death in order to be free and here in this city we just

listen to now President Trump's inaugural address and in the address he never mentioned

Ukraine. He also did not mention Russia but he never mentioned Ukraine. He also did not mention Russia, but he never mentioned Ukraine.

And I think everyone, we're sitting here listening to you saying, what's you going to say about Ukraine?

My first instinct, and based on the people I know who will be working for Trump, I think it's actually a good thing.

It means that there's space to work. It means that

he's not defining himself against Ukraine. Because a lot of the rhetoric during the campaign,

when he's running against Biden, there's a lot of anti-Ukraine rhetoric at times. Not always,

but at times. And the fact that he says very little about Ukraine means that this is an opportunity.

There's a chance.

Now, Russia also sees this as an opportunity for sure.

But I think this underscores the importance for those who support Ukraine.

Every day, if you support Ukraine, if you think that in order for Ukraine to win, Ukraine needs

American weapons and American permission, stuff that Joe Biden refused to send, then you have to

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