evidence: 0:20:23.2 AB: And during that summer, the United States gave Ukraine HIMARS and it turned the tide of the war at that moment and propelled significant counter-offensive achievements in the fall of 2022, which liberated large swaths of territory and villages in the east and the south. This counteroffensive resulted in Ukraine taking back 50% of the territory Russia had taken since the start of the full scale invasion. Of course, we know that this war did not start in 2022. It started in 2014 when Ukraine's decision to move closer to the European Union resulted in Russia's attempted annexation of Crimea and its occupation of part of eastern Ukraine called the Donbas. Two of Ukraine's most strategically and economically important, spaces. As I started with my team in the spring of 2022, we had the chance to see how close the Russians came to capturing Kyiv, a necessary step to overtake the entire country. [...] 0:30:13.1 AB: In an existential war to decide its own future Ukraine is also rewriting the future, the future of how trade may work, the future of how we will use technology for national defense, the future of our alliances principle among them, NATO. Ukraine has achieved extraordinary success. With our support in that of Ukraine's allies and partners Ukraine has not only survived Russia's brutal onslaught and recaptured this 50% of their territory.