Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show across the nation from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Happening right now, Ukrainians are putting up TikTok videos to show other Ukrainians how to drive abandoned or captured Russian military vehicles.

I don't know if you've seen this, but a large number of Russian tanks and military vehicles ran out of gas.

And the Russians fled the scene.

Their supply lines aren't working apparently and Ukrainians now have all these Russian tanks. Now outside of Kyiv, now I need to explain this to you.

Why are people saying Kyiv instead of Kiev? Historically historically Americans have said Kiev not Kiv.

The spelling in Russia is, Russian, is K-I-E-V for Kiev, and the spelling in Ukrainian is K-Y-I-V.

Ukrainians historically pronounce it Kiv and Russians pronounce it Kiev given that the Russians are the bad guys a lot of people have

decided they're going to embrace the Ukrainians and call it Kiv I will call it Kiv

as best I can but I grew up calling it Kiev, so you'll have to forgive me.

But Kiev is being shelled for the first time since World War II when Adolf Hitler ordered the

shelling of Kiev in Kharkiv, another city in Ukraine. It's happening right now. It is a brutal shelling that Kiev is undergoing

tonight. The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has signed papers asking to be admitted to the

European Union, and the European Union is responding very rapidly.

Vladimir Putin is, in 48 hours this weekend, managed to overthrow the entire world order.

What I mean by this is Switzerland, the most neutral place on planet Earth would not even impose sanctions on

Adolf Hitler is imposing sanctions on Vladimir Putin. Russian bank accounts in Switzerland are

being frozen. Most of the Russian oligarchs have accounts in Switzerland because the Swiss are so neutral and have never imposed

sanctions in their lives and they're going to do so for the first time in history.

Germany, which has been a pacifist nation since World War II, has reversed itself in addition

to now supporting blocking Russia from the Swift Banking Transaction

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