This is the John Fugel-Sang podcast.

So the next phase of Russia's so-called special military operation has begun.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made announcement this morning confirming the

reports of a large-scale offensive underway in the eastern Donbos region of Ukraine.

Biden had a call this morning about it with G7 and NATO.

And here I want to play Pentagon spokesman John Kirby detailing how quickly the aid is now flowing to Ukraine from decree all the way to wheels up.

From the time the president authorized this latest 800 million on the 13th of April, 48 hours later on the 15th the first plane was taken off with stuff in that package.

And meanwhile, there's another incredible released audio clip that Ukraine's security

services put out.

They're putting on all these intercepted phone calls of Russian soldiers calling back home to talk about how

awful it is. This was a 28 second clip of an intercepted phone call of a woman

back in Russia giving a peep talk to her son telling him to not lose his

fighting spirit and saying he's doing great

deeds in Ukraine and the son a Russian soldier shoots back what are we doing we're

killing civilians and children, damn it.

And the mother says,

no, you're not killing civilians and children,

you're killing fascist, which experts have said

showed how effective Russia's domestic propaganda is right now.

They don't know where in Ukraine the soldier is, but they put out the audio.

It's pretty incredible.

And I want to play Joe Biden because he visited New Hampshire today to remind everyone again the bulk of inflation

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