This is the Tom Hartman program.

On the line with us, our buddy Phil Itner, the veteran war correspondent based out of

Kyiv Ukraine and the host of the new podcast on the edge available wherever

fine podcasts are found.

You can also check out his video blog over on YouTube.

Just plug in his name Philip Itner, I T N E. E.

Philip backwards is his Twitter handle.

And Phil, welcome back to the program.

I understand that the Russian dictatorship has been bombing the Ukrainian democracy pretty

severely and now they're attacking the power systems, the power grid?

Well, they've been doing that for quite some time and as a matter of fact recently two of their top military heads

uh... show you go and uh... general gerosamov have been indicted at the ICC

for specifically targeting the civilian electrical grid.

We're feeling the brunt of it.

Yesterday I had about three hours of electricity.

Today I'll be lucky if I get six. They have a roster that you can check online on your

mobile phone on your cell phone. It'll tell you you know these are the hours that

you're definitely not gonna have power. These are the hours where you're definitely not going to have power these are the

hours where you may or may not have power and these are the hours where you will

most likely have power and thankfully we seem to be falling in to one of those windows of about two

and a half hours where we have electricity so we got lucky today but it's it's not

the normal it's not the norm the norm is no electricity and the

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