material into the atmosphere and the devastation it brought on thousands of innocent citizens ravaged by radiation. the secretive soviet union evacuated 335,000 people and created a 19 mile wide exclusion zone around the reactor that remains to this day. five years later the soviet union collapsed and ukraine achieved the independence vladimir putin is subverting. one lieutenant colonial told "the new york times" last month it doesn't matter if it's contaminated or nobody lives here, it's our territory and our country and we must defend it. how the west can help them fight, the new sanctions announced today is a start. president biden said there will be strictly defensive movement of u.s. troops already in europe to reinforce our nato allies. the question now is will these sanctions get the full support