molly crabapple joins us from new york and anna grechishkina is with us in kyiv.ly, talk about this journey you took. talk about why you chose to focus your enormous talents, or illustrations, and your writing on what is happening in ukraine right now. >> thank you for having me here, amy. i chose to travel to ukraine at the beginning of august because history was happening there. ukrainians were writing their own history and i wanted to document it. i had known ukraine primarily for my research for my next book is a place where some of the greatest cataclysms of the 20th century had happened, word millions of people were killed in a planned famine in the 1930's, a place for the germans essentially began the holocaust. also a place that led to the dissolution of the soviet union in 1991. and because of this, i wanted to see with my own eyes how ukrainians were writing and finding their own future in the face of this idiotic and unprovoked invasion. i traveled all over the country. i did not go to the front lines at all, but i went to odessa, kyiv, lviv. when i was