WHO-AM afternoon host Simon Conway spoke live with Iowan Gordie Siebring on Thursday afternoon from Ukraine.
Mr. Siebring has lived and worked in Ukraine for many years and shared what he's seen on this first day of the Russian invasion, shared some of the news reports that he is hearing on Ukrainian media, and why he choose to stay.
He also admitted that he believed that Russian would not invade, right up to moment Russian forces crossed into Ukraine near his farm, which is adjacent to the border with Belarus.