Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur.

Here's what's coming up.

As Russia advances on Ukraine's Pokrovsk, G7 leaders meeting Canada with this war high on their agenda.

So what's at stake and how long can Ukraine hold out? I get the military analysis and MSF Secretary General Christopher Lockyer joins us from Ukraine.

Then, the President's Cake, the award-winning film exploring the realities of Saddam Hussein's rule in 1990s Iraq.

I speak with writer and director Hassan Hadi,

also ahead.

Just think of how many years of therapy that can take to change an individual, where that

happens literally overnight. On Veterans Day, Hari Shrinivasan speaks with former Navy SEAL

Marcus Capone and Bonnie Cohen,

director of In Waves and War,

a film about controversial psychedelic therapy

that seeks to heal brain injuries.

The And very warm, welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Paula Newton in New York, sitting in for Christana Mampur.

Today in America, we mark Veterans Day, a chance to commemorate those who served in the U.S. military.

It coincides with other global holidays marking the end of World War I.

But as we celebrate these triumphs over tyranny, the shadow of war still looms over Europe today. For more than three years now,

Russia has terrorized Ukraine, taking its land, bombarding cities, and even stealing the country's

children. Now, front-line fighting is focused on Pukrosk, a key gateway into the eastern Donetsk

region. Ukraine's top commander claims Russia has sent about

150,000 troops to capture that city as their forces dwindle. And yet Kiev continues to fight back

just last night striking an oil refinery and several targets in Russian-occupied territory.

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