This is the Tom Hartman program.

On the line with us is Svidlana Romanko, the founder and director of Rezon, we stand. R-A-Z-O-M, we stand. the

Ukrainian organization calling for the permanent embargo on Russian fossil fuels R-A-Z-O-M-T-E-Z-O-M-W-E-S-T-A-N-D-O-E-N for the English version.

And Svidlana, welcome to the program.

I'm so pleased to have you with us. You're speaking about the need to

deal with the economics around Russia's brutal attack on your country and what's going to happen afterwards.

Where do we start with this?

Oh, thank you so much, Tom.

It's pleasure to be here with you.

Thank you for having me. And I think we have to start from

how we are formed as an independent Ukrainian movement dedicated to the defense and

liberation of our country and the permanent defeat of Russian aggression

and a clean energy future for the Ukraine and the world.

So at the very beginning of the war, just bringing a bit of personal story of why I'm here and why I am for the second year,

I am tirelessly fighting with many allies and volunteers and partners. we are fighting Russia's war machine and

Putin's war machine.

So we started exactly on the very day of when the war began and literally under bombing

of our cities

under these first explosions,

we were able with colleagues from the movement,

not just think of what will happen to our families,

what will happen to our families, what will happen to our children as the war wages on,

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