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This is the Tom Hartman program.

On the line with us, our old buddy Phil Hittner, the veteran war correspondent,

based out of Keve, Ukraine, right now, you can follow his video blog over on YouTube.

All you have to know is how to spell his name.

It's six letters, Philip Hittner, six letters in each.

PHI-L-I-P-I-T-T-N-E-R, and that's also his actually backwards.

It's Hittner, Philip is his ex-handler, his Twitter handle, but definitely worth following both.

First of all, before I get into my questions, how are you, how is Keve,

how is Ukraine doing right now?

Generally fine, we've got some serious air raid warnings going on here in the capital today.

I think I counted four or five today alone, and then other places out west as well.

So we continue to get pelted, or at least under the threat of being attacked.

So that's always a constant.

I noticed yesterday, I believe it was a piece in the financial times about how the

the Russian Central Bank just raised their interest rates hugely, I mean, up to like 12 percent,

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