Introduction

Ryan Evans: It's been a while since I've sat down personally with my friend Mike Coffin, but here we are. We're at a friends-back porch on a slightly sweltering Sunday afternoon in our nation's capital. He says it is important to trace the origins of the offensive further back through the course of this war over the past year. But how Ukraine got here is a path that starts at the counter offensive and hard given here son, which was last fall.