Ukraine still stands and fights - Marking three years from Russia's full scale invasion - Special Edition

Allied leaders from Europe and Canada, have been in Kyiv today, 24 of February, demonstrating support for Ukraine at a Summit with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Three years have passed since the full scale invasion of Russia into this sovereign state in the heart of Europe. At the same time the US Trump administration seems to be embracing Russia, the aggressor, and President Donald Trump has called President Zelensky, “a dictator.”  US leaders are not in Kyiv today. America’s  support to Ukraine is therefore in serious doubt and the transatlantic bond underpinning NATO, is being challenged. Ukrainians have fought bravely, in fact for eleven years, and will continue to do exactly that –  to their last breath, as Óskar Hallgrímsson, an Icelandic war reporter and photographer in Kyiv told me. We speak about the decisions he and is Ukrainian wife, Marika, had to make on this fateful morning, 3 years ago, the horrors of war and the future of Ukraine. We also hear voices of Ukrainians I have interviewed on this podcast over the past 4 years. Finally I interview Alina Cherviatsova, an Ukrainian legal scholar from Kharkiv, now at the University of Ghent in Belgium. She is doing important work on the academic front and is deeply critical of President Trump