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Thank you. Greetings, comrades and welcome to the eastern border. This time we have a special interview with Brock Bierman from Ukraine Focus.

That's a group that helps out Ukraine and volunteers.

Well, is reliant on your donations.

Link is going to be afterwards in the show notes.

But first, I'd like to mention that they have a really cool project that I was contacted and told about.

It concerns Zelensky's truck from a show, but we'll get to that a bit later.

Well, nice to have you in the show, Brock. Yes, good afternoon or hello to all your listeners.

Please do explain us a bit about Ukraine Focus. Who are you and what do you do so far? I read a bunch of

good things about you guys, but I think I should allow you to explain it. Yeah, that's fine.

But let me back up a little bit and explain a little bit about my life and how I ended up getting to where we are right now.

I have been involved with development in Eastern Europe for the better part of 25 years.

In fact, my ancestry comes from a small city in northern Moldova called Zaroka. And I also have ancestry from Odessa.

Oh, I love Odessa. I love Odessa.

I love Odessa so much. It's my favorite Ukrainian city.

Yeah, they came to America in the late 19th, early 20th century, and my grandfather, his name was Samuel Robert Bierman.

In fact, a lot of what I'm doing today is really

in retrospect as I think about it as a result of me studying him, right? So my great, my grandfather,

rather, came to the United States in 1906, became a citizen in 1913, ended up joining the U.S.

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