So we're talking on Friday, it's 11, 15 a.m. March 25th.

And what are we going to talk about today?

Well Roman, it's now been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th.

And by nearly every account, Russia was expected to take over Ukraine quickly, but it failed.

And Kiev, the country's capital is still under Ukrainian control.

And of course, Russia has since changed its tactics.

And what we've seen is bombing and artillery shellings of cities and civilian targets,

white hospitals and schools.

There have been thousands of casualties and an enormous refugee crisis.

And as of today, at least three and a half million people have fled Ukraine since the invasion

began.

Now the United States, the European Union and several other countries have responded to

this by imposing severe economic sanctions or penalties on Russia.

And there have also been individual sanctions on extremely wealthy Russian business leaders

or oligarchs who have closed ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, has been praised around the world as a hero,

hero for his own people and as a defender of democracy.

Now we've seen Zelensky speak, right, by Zoom, to the legislatures around the world.

And he also posts nightly videos to his telegram channel.

And American politicians have rushed to state their public support of Zelensky.

So Senator Benzass said that Zelensky is a bigger man than Putin.

And Mitch McConnell told reporters that we are not doing nearly enough, quickly enough,

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