Introduction

This is an episode of the rick thompson report. I have listeners to this podcast in both ukraine and in russia. The main thing i want to say, in fact, is that i just hope that my listeners are able to stay safe during this conflict. Many people are being forced to choose not to stay safe. There are no winners in war, really. So there are people who aren't in favour of the war, and simply russian people who will ultimately suffer as a result of this conflict. Er, it's difficult to talk about and i don't profess to be an expert bout it. I say i'm going to talk about it. This is