hello and welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. the third round of talks between ukraine and russia will take place monday. there are no further details but the first two rounds were held in belarus. the third round of talks to happen tomorrow. and we're learning that much of a ukrainian tank factory has been leveled after russian strikes. this is some 85 miles west of kyiv. the area has seen intense shelling in recent days. new video coming in from the city of irpine on the outskirts of kyiv. you see jets flying overhead and

massive plumes from the explosion. needless to say the bombardment caused heavy damage, many buildings going up in flames. and take a look at this. the ukrainian armed forces posted this video. it's a russian helicopter being shot from the sky. cnn geo located the area where this happened. we haven't been able to verify when this happened. now, all of this comes when humanitarian corridors have been scheduled to be opened again an hour from right now. the temporary cease-fire was supposed to happen on saturday. another cease-fire went into effect an hour ago and is supposed to remain in effect for the next ten hours. amazing acts of courage, defiance, and protests by ukrainian people like this. have a look.

>> this is a man jumping on a tank carrying a flag. in an address to the ukrainian people, president volodymyr zelenskyy urges them to keep up the resistance. here he is. take a listen. >> translator: ukrainians in all our city where the enemy invaded, go on the offensive, go out out on the streets. we need to fight every time we van opportunity. >> we have correspondents around the world reporting on this. so let's start with cnn's scott mclean in lviv. when we talked yesterday, the two same humanitarian corridors were announced for the first

time. it didn't pan out as we had hoped. any evidence it will work this time? >> reporter: we can only hope at this point, kim. as you mentioned earlier, this cease-fire agreement began about an hour ago, and this corridor is supposed to officially open about an hour from now, according to the ukrainian side of things, and so this is heard from mariupol and vovolnovakha. they accused ukrainians of being pinned in the city so they can't leave. there's really an extraordinary level of coordination between two sides that are literally at war right now. this is no easy task. it's extremely important because the humanitarian situation is deteriorating by the day.

there's no power, water, heat, they're running out of food, and they're running out of water as well. yesterday they said there were 50 buses to go. they're down to 30. ten of those they've hidden away just in case there's shelling, just in case they get hit or damaged or put out of commission in some other way. so that is not going to be able to move a lot of people. even if you could squeeze a hundred people onto a bus, and i'm not sure you could, time 20s buses, that's only 2,000 and there are 200 tho,000 who woulde to leave the city. there have been two talks. another round will be held tomorrow. there are other big things on the agenda they would like to get done, a cease-fire, and armistice.

those two things seem like a dis distant dream at this point. if they could make more progress to humanitarian corridors across the city that they desperately need, that would be progress. let's see if they can make it happen today a second time, kim. >> then, many of those people who will be fleeing and have been fleeing end up there where you are in lviv. you know, you've chronicled this. i mean, some heartbreaking scenes. tell us what you saw and what people told you. >> yeah. so this is the westernmost train hub in ukraine, and so a lot of people end up at the train station. i never saw anything quite like it. there was a line gip out the door just to get on the train, to board the train to go to poland. i noticed far fewer foreigners. it was almost entirely women and children, some with many

children in tow. i spoke with one woman from ukraine, a relatively part of ukraine, safe still, but her dater came from celsewhere. she went to collect her mother and sisters and her own kids and get out of the country. i also met a family who was driving across the country, and they were parked in a parking lot not too far from the train station. it was a mother, her 16-year-old son, and three daughters. they had to leave her elderly mother behind because she's simply too frail to travel. she obviously left her husband behind to fight in their town in northeastern ukraine, and now that 16-year-old boy is having to pick up some of the slack to try to fill the shoes of his father who's staying behind, helping his mother take care of his family, driving the car.

obviously they're under an extraordinary amount of stress, a lot of pressure. he's feeling a lot more like a man today, not so much a boy, kim. >> gosh, so many shattered lives. scott mclean, thanks so much. refugees are flooding border crossings every day trying to escape the russian assault on ukraine. thousands are making the arduous journey, leaving their homes behind and braving freezing temperatures in the hopes of making it to safety. the u.n. says more than 1.3 million refugees have fled ukraine and lawmakers are stepping up to help. >> we're going back monday into session in congress with an agenda that include as $10 billion aid package to ukraine,

half humanitarian, the other half military in nature. i can't think of a more powerful inspirational message to take back with us toward that end. >> with thousands fleeing across the border every day, it's taking an army of volunteers to help them. cnn's sara sidner takes a look at their efforts at a refugee camp in poland. >> reporter: this is a refugee camp of sorts about a 20-minute drive from the border of poland and ukraine. this somewhere a lot of people fleeing the war end up after they've crossed over the border. they get into transportation,ed a they end up here trying to figure out what their next moves are. so the fact that there are thousands of people coming through here every single day, there have been hundreds of volunteers that have turned up to try to give them some comfort. these gentlemen are using something from the 1950s to make a very delicious soup. sour soup is what they call it.

they're working on that. you have a gentleman with hot drinks. you also have people who have donated. and there's a whole box of toys that kids keep coming up and digging through to the bottom trying to figure out their favorite thing because, remember, people left their homes in a panic. many of them are carrying only a small backpack or potentially carrying just a small bag trying to get away from the war. you're also seeing a lot of different kinds of food, things that people can take with them. and people have donated. they've donated all manner of things because it is frigid. it is very, very cold. we're seeing things like blankets and little jackets here for children, but all day and all night, we're seeing people flood in here. they're coming generally on these huge buses that one might think are tourists coming from somewhere, but these are the world's newest war refugees

coming from ukraine. for more on the refugee crisis at ukraine's borders, let's bring in a communications officer with the international rescue committee and she joins us now from poland. thanks so much for being with us. describe what you've been seeing at the border. >> thank you for having me. i visited one of the border points yesterday, a different one than where your correspondent was. it's much smaller. people are arriving on foot. they're dragging suitcases, dogs, children, and walking 500 meters to a reception point similar to the one you described earlier. they're staying two or three hours, enough time to have some pierogis, charge their phones, and have some rest before they're taken farther into poland. people are arriving traumatized and freezing coal. i spoke to one woman yesterday. she arrived completely by herself. she hadn't taken her contact

lenses out in three days and she looked absolutely exhausted. >> you mentioned some will be taken to other places, but many people have no place to go. i mean what do they do next? >> so from what we're hearing, the maximum time that people are staying in some of these reception facilities is about three days, and if they don't have people picking them up, friends, families, or even employees when they're working seasonal work in poland, the local government have arranged buses for them and taken them into nearby hotels or different municipalities further into poland. >> it's pretty astonishing. we said more than 1.3 million people fled the country. one of our producers took the math. it took two years for the war in syria to pass a million refugees. in this one, it took eight days or so.

how great will the need be in the coming weeks or months? >> exactly. the numbers are truly staggering. i think it's important to remember that, although, people are arriving exhausted, tired, hungry when they arrive here, the majority of the humanitarian need will still be knew crane where people don't have power, they don't have water. hospitals are running out of medicine. that's where the committee is going to start a response to make sure women and children are protected, offer extra ma counseling and make sure humanitarian access and a response can happen. >> i mean, we're seeing some of the videos from these centers. some of the people there work for n fgos, but some of them ar volunteers. tell us how they're helping out. >> exactly. i think it's quite common across europe to have big volunteer movements. we saw it in greece and

elsewhere. it's astonishing that people are stepping up trying to help people. one woman said she was completely surprised by the warm welcome from people here and are incredibly grateful. for wanton movements, it's important that they're well coordinated. that's why ngo comes in to make sure gaps are filled and that there's not overlapping and safeguards come into place. >> we've seen thousands come into the country of ukraine saying they want to fight, they want to help, but maybe there are more practical, better ways people can help. what can folks do if they really want to get involved in a hands-on way? >> exactly. at the border yesterday, there's long lines of cars an trucks appearing now of people bringing in humanitarian supplies into ukraine. people put the red humanitarian

cross on their own cars, you know. i think while this is amazing people want to help, the best thing they can do is donate to large organizations like the irc that are boosting the efforts of those organizations already on the ground. they can build the capacity and step up and provide more support. that's kind of the best way of doing it rather than everyone arriving at once wanting to help and not knowing how. >> we're hearing how emotionally shattered people are, how the families have been torn asunder. you must be struck as well by the courage that so many of these people are showing. >> absolutely. i spoke to a woman yesterday who was quite timid and down. i asked how she felt right now. her eyes lit up and spoke at

length how proud she was of her his who was back home. she left the family dog behind to keep him company. i think the spirit of the ukrainian people is just remarkable. the minute you ask them about their country, they really speak with such determination and it's just amazing. >> wow. that's so touching. thank you for all of the work that you and your organization are doing. nancy dent with the international rescue committee. thank you so much. >> thank you. and if you would like to help people in ukraine who may be in need of shelter, food, and water, please go to cnn.com/impact and you'll find many ways you can help. well, israel is giving diplomacy a chance as brutal fighting rages on in ukraine. next, the prime minister makes an unannounced trip to the kremlin for talks with vladimir putin. stay with us.

flown back home in trying to play mediator. he made an unannounced trip to moscow where he held talks with vladimir putin. he then flew to berlin to meet with german chancellor olaf scholtz, and antony blinken took diplomacy to the ukrainian border with poland. he spoke with his ukrainian counterpart and met refugees before heading to moldova today. for more we have that tasha berb -- natasha bertrand. take us through the virtual meeting with u.s. lawmakers. >> reporter: yeah, so secretary of state antony blinken was there yesterday. he went to the border to meet with some refugees, but the main message he was trying to send yesterday was u.s. support for

poland and how they've been helping people flee and expressing poland's support willing to house american soldiers as the russian threat grows. now, the main question, though, has been what kind of military assistance is poland going to be able to provide ukraine? there has been a lot of talk of fighter jets. president zelenskyy pleaded with them if they could not create a no-fly zone, push the european countries to have fighter jets to provide them to ukraine so they could have an edge over the russian planes in that airspace. the question though now and what we're told has been in discussion over the last several days is whether the u.s. is able to backfill poland with its u.s.-made fighter jets so they can send their jets, polish jets to ukraine. so the question is kind of sensitive right now. it remains unclear how fast the

u.s. is going to be able to backfill poland with those jets because obviously because poland would feel particularly vulnerable as well. this is something very high on the zelenskyy wish list because of the aggression toward the cities and civilians in the last few days has really escalated. >> absolutely. let's go to more diplomatic efforts. how about a surprise trip for israeli prime minister naftali bennett? how did this come about and did anything come of it? >> reporter: it was a complete unannounced trip. we only found out about it after he met with putin. it was done in coordination with the united states and with their blessing and with france and germany. i spoke to the ukrainian ambassador. i'm told they were given the heads-up and they were supportive. we know he flew out early

saturday morning and met with putin for more than three hours. after he spoke with him, he spoke with president zelenskyy. a spokesman said israel and germany share a possible goal to end the war in ukraine as soon as possible, but as far as any hard outcomes out of the talks, we're not hearing whether anything has resulted. israel has been playing mediator for some time. they have a good relationship with u.s., ukraine, and russia. they're still talking with everybody. though this flight to moscow was a surprise, he's been having phone calls with zelenskyy and putin over the past few weeks. zelenskyy has asked them for some time to act as mediator, possibly hold negotiations in

jerusalem to bring an end to this conflict. so far putin has not been recep active. with bennett flying to moscow, that's a positive thing. hopefully we'll hear from him about any sort of outcomes, what was discussed here. we know they discussed ukraine, but any possible steps toward a cease fire. kim. >> let's hope we can see some results. so much at stake obviously. natasha bertrand in moscow. thanks. a look ahead, why vladimir putin was so determined to invade its western neighbor. we'll map it out coming soon. stay with us.

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all right. our breaking news continues this hour with the anounment ukraine and russia will resume talks on ending hostilities on monday. that's according to negotiators on both sides. it comes as corridors are scheduled to reopen again in less than an hour. the temporary cease-fire that was supposed to occur on saturday was put on hold after russian troops ignored the agreement. this video was published on social media saturday. it shows the damage. another video captured by reuters show several fires around irpine and kyiv. it's caused extensive damage to

roads and bridges. secretary of state anthony blinken met to talk about sanctions. according to vladimir putin it's a declaration of war. volodymyr zelenskyy asked for a no-fly zone and for military report. zelenskyy is urging his people not to give up. here he is. >> translator: ukraine which we know, love, protect, and will not give up to any enemy. when you don't have a firearm but they respond with gunshots and you don't run, this is the reason why occupation is temporary. our people, ukrainians, don't back down. >> one of the biggest questions about the war in ukraine is why. why did russian president vladimir putin invade and why is he so determined to prevent nato

expansion? journalist, broadcaster, and author tim marshall explains how maps may hold the answer. >> it's worth a glance at history and a good look at a map. in the cold war, europe was split more or less in two, the nato countries in the west, but post-cold war, country after country wanted to join nato and it's moved up to russian's borders. to understand why russia feels nervous about that, a topographical map is useful. there's a mountain range running across europe, the carpathian mountains. through the flat ground have come many others who invaded russia from that direction and that makes russia very nervous.

therefore it seeks to plug that gap by occupying it or if not, where the ground opens up into flat ground, it wants to at the very least come ndominate it. in 2014 its plan was to occupy and annex crimea which gives the russians a way out of the black sea. it also prevented civil war in the donbas region in order to create a smau small mini buffer. it's important to understand the place that ukraine has in russia's heart or in its psychology. russian culture began in kyiv and it's where what eventually became russia was founded.

it moved eas d eastward across area. putin wrote an essay pretty much about this in which he doesn't recognize these lines on the map, these borders because as far as he's concerned, ukraine is part of mother russia, and that is a psychology that goes quite deep into the russian collective memory. large parts of the country are russian-speaking. there's the slavovak connection and many very orthodox in their religious belief. while all the rest of this comes into this, this is from the heart and it actually does play a role in russian thinking. >> the lines on the map are one thing, but it means something different when you're living in

the impacted regions. earlier our cnn reporter was speaking with a father and daughter and the urge to provide more acssistance to ukraine. >> translator: my father says he's 64 years old and his generation was led by the experience of the second world war. >> translator: at that time the usa also was waiting. they were showing what was hearing on this land. they were just waiting while our

land was ruined, our economy was ruined, our people's life was ruined, and your state was just waiting at the second world war. >> translator: there was the best memorandum, different like england, russia, france, usa said it will be never again and that they will protect. they will do something if it will happen.

>> translator: so we had to lose a lot of our military equipment in advance to keep peace around the world. and now russia has taken other land and we feel hopeless. yes, you help with some equipment now, but it's not enough. >> i understand. i want to ask you because we're running out of time, and i'm sorry. whatever he wants to say, your father, we'd love to hear the rest of it, but i also want to know, kristina, if you could talk to vladimir putin right

now, what would your message to him be? >> to be honest, i want just to -- him to kill himself. it's the only way because i don't think it's possible to talk to the crazy person. and i guess what also my father wanted to say in the next few words and i agree with him, we need real actions because i know that all the world supports us. i see it and i feel it because i have a lot of friends around the world. i was traveling around the world. i see it. i have a lot of friends around the world. for the government of different countries, including usa, it's really a show for them, the government of the usa, to show real people. we need your real, real help. >> fighting continues in

ukraine, and many people are desperate to evacuate, including foreign students trying to get back to their home countries. we'll have details after the break. but first listen as protests and parents singing the "national anthem" in solidarity with those impacted by the war. ♪

the you nation . the united nations said 1.3 have fled ukraine including foreign students who are trying to figure out how to get home. >> i'm very happy to get home. thank you, nigeria. >> reporter: these are the lucky ones after being stranded in ukraine. countries around the world are trying to evacuate students. many have already made the

terrifying choice to leave on their own, joining the mad scram billion of ukrainians on taxis, bus, and foot, heading to the borders to escape violence. from there many countries are coordinating flights out of the region. this student said it was an exhausting journey. >> we had to walk two hours to get to the border without a bus. we had to stand for hours in the cold waiting femme them to open the gates. >> reporter: many said they stayed as long as they could, some in underground bunkers until conditions on the ground finally forced them to leave. >> missiles, bombs, however. we had to leave. we couldn't stay there. no one could stay there. it was really dangerous. >> reporter: bear hugs and tears

have greeted these students from ecuador. one uncle said his nephew said bombs were falling. the family was afraid they'd never see him again. there was alleged racial discrimination at the border. some were forced to wait or turned away at checkpoints while ukrainians were allowed to pass. >> mostly they would categorize people. indian people, arab people before black people. >> reporter: they denied the allegations on twitter saying it's a first come, first serve situation at the border and they have helped 130,000 leave the country. one moroccan student has chosen to stay and help others at the border like those who helped him sunshine not an ukrainian and decided to stay to help.

show kindness. everybody needs to help. everybody. we need to coordinate. this is the message. >> reporter: a medical student fled ukraine and has returned to help other students stuck in ukraine. she joins us now. thanks so much for being with us. i'm glad you were able to get out. as i understand it, you went to ukraine a year ago to study medicine in cukraine. the university was roughly in the middle of the country, so when the first bombs were dropped on kyiv, you were hiding in a bomb shelter and decided to leave. take us through the first part of your journey from where you were to the border. >> thank you. thank you for having me. so we left last week saturday morning. we left last week saturday morning. we used a bus. a group of swathi students.

we had to walk several kilometers for a couple of hours until we got there. when we got there, again, we had to wait to get over the gates to the romanian side of the border, that's when we crossed over. >> so i take it many other african and south asian students had trouble getting on trains. they were being told they weren't allowed or told to wait while ukrainians were given preferential treatment. did you experience anything like that yourself or did you know other students who experienced this? >> our friends were the ones experiencing such an -- in the trains. in the trains. i'm sure you have seen this video where a black girl tried to get on board and the officials are telling her to go. the ukrainian civilians themselves, they're not -- you know, they were not treating

people in that sort of manner. they all understand we all want to cross over. we all want to go home and escape this war safely. so when we got to the borders, that is when also we faced some of these things, but along the way when we were walking toward the border, the ukrainians were helping us with hot tea and bread just to keep us warm because it was really, really cold. temperatures are still low in ukraine. so when we got to the border, that was the problem. the problems where when we crossed the border, when we were trying to cross over to the other side. there were thousands and thousands of people. there was a gate for foreigners and a gate for ukrainians some of the foreigners would get so frustrated, they even took over the ukrainian gate. so now the soldiers would try to calm them down, but, of course, not in the best way. they started shooting in the air and then on the ground. not at them but the ground and

held some at gunpoint, of course. then they would manhandle some of the students that would be crossing over at the border. those were the officials, not the civilians, no. >> and i understand -- i mean you were taking some video and your friends took video of, you know, one student being kicked, i understand. another was pushed off the train? talk me through that. >> that video of the girl was trying to get on the train. so many people were packed like sardines in the trains, sorry, trying to cross over -- i mean, trying to get to another city, which would get them closer to the border so they could cross. some were crossing over the polish side and some were crossing over to the romanian side, others, hungary. but the most borders where there

was so much going on was the polish and romanian side. >> when it comes to discrimination, i mean many black and brown people in ukraine have reported incidents like that. the u.n.'s international organization for migration have said they've had verified reports of kiss krimm nation against foreigners like you've described. many politicians have denied that account, saying that there's been no discrimination. they're pushing back against acts of racism. what would you say to them? >> as i explained before, the ukrainian civilians were all so nice. so many of us joined when we were walking toward the border, offering us some hot tea so we wouldn't get so cold, but it was when we crossed the border where the officials now, not the civilians, but the officials, i that would start manhandling

some foreigners as well and everything. i think some of it was because some of the foreigners were so frustrated. the gates where they were allowed to cross over, they would only allow ukrainian trucks to cross over to the other side. the civilians, you know, because we're all together in that situation, everything, they were not looking at color or whatever. we were all helping each other. it was only when we got to the borders when all of the tension started. >> well, listen. thank you so much for explaining your situation to us. i know you've been trying to help other students as well go through the same thing. thank you for that work you've been doing. >> yes. >> thank you. we really appreciate it. >> thank you so much. thank you. all right. we now want to turn to eastern europe where u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is meeting with moldova's president and

minister in the capital. blinken is there to express u.s. support for moldova as it faces a surge of refugees from ukraine, and they fear they could get another target of russian aggression. we're expecting antony blinken to address the media at any moment now. we'll bring you that when it comes. we're taking it now, all right. >> by the sit extends of the united states of america, which amounts to over 1.7 billion u.s. dollars in as is tans which helps get us consolidated. we appreciate the integral territory as well as the path. i wish you visited our country in peaceful times in the context of our university of our bilateral relationship which we have great plans for the

transformation of moldova. we appreciate it. we started working here in order to improve the business environment, to atact investments into the economy of the country. this is in order to prepare moldova to compete with the challenges of the time. we want to be resilient, combative, a country which does invest into its people and is capable to channel energy and the creativity of its citizens in order to build a place where people really want to leive. the reality, we woke up on the 24th of february, however, set our plans on hold.

we're now living in a dark period of time. as far as we know the war in ukraine is happening on the border with our country. we firmly contempt the military aggression on ukraine. we called for peace in the very first hours. we continue called to dialogue as well as the possibility to identify peaceful solution as the only way to cease those violent actions against ukraine and its citizens. as a neutral country, we decided to stretch a hand of help to the people directly affected by the war.

moldova received citizens from the neighbors country who are trying to flee. over 250,000 people crossed the border from ukraine to the republican of moldova since the beginning of the war. a big part of those people stay in our country so far. the employees, customers officers, medical doctors, social assistance, local authorities, diplomats, but also a lot of volunteers modernized their efforts in order to help out the refugees which are arrived from ukraine. thousands of people from all the regions of the country joined this effort. when entering the republic, they immediately received a hot meal, transp transportation, and a shower. tens of thousands of families in the whole country housed people

from ukraine. it's a significant effort for a country with a population which is below 3 million, and we have quite humble incomes. but despite those high challenges, which represent the increasing inflow of the country, we cannot turn our back to those people. the majority of refugees are women, children, elderly. they cross the border being exhausted, desperate, after long hours of journey, escaping from the war. it is our duty to help them out. we will continue this mission to the best intention. dear secretary of state, the republic of moldova needs assistance and immediate contributions from the international community that our country can help. we do need urgently acie tans

for the temporary accommodations of those people in order to offer them things and redirect the inflee to the countries which is have a high capacity to receive them. some states expressed the availabav availability to take in ukrainians. we do need rapid assistance and involvement of the community. i hope the tour you have taken in the countries of these recent contributions, together we have high-ranking efforts to the peaceful efforts of ukraine. this is what we all want.

this is what we all deserve, especially the ukrainians. dear secretary of state, mr. blinken, the republican of moldova and the united states developed a very good relationship in those over 30 years of cooperation and friendship. i do appreciate the strategic partnership between our countries, and i do hope that we'll see each other again in some better times when we'll be able to discuss how to advance, how to move forward on the subjects which are included on the bilateral agenda of the countries. i do hope your visit gives a new impetus to our partnership. we want to continue the political dialogue, security dialogue between our states. we want to develop projects which are directed toile toward the resilience of the country as well as advance on the progress of dialogue and also appeal to

asset recovery. multiple partnerships will help to strengthen us as well as strengthen our ka capacity. it can become a bowl of resilience and trust as well as a stronghold. that's what we want. >> thank you. now we hand it over to the secretary of state. >> president sandu, thank you. it's almost been seven days to the day of my last visit. it's great to beback, but as you said, i wish it was under somewhat different circumstances. thank you as well toz the prime

minister, the foreign minister and all who have received us. i'm glad our ambassador ken lawson has arrived here i think last month. for us, having ambassadors in place is vital for cooperation for countries around the world, and that's especially poshlgt now. in the 30 years since moldova and the united states began diplomatic relations, we never faced a moment as urgent and challenging as the one we face today. russia's unprovoked unwarranted war on ukraine has kicked off a humanitarian crisis that is already having a vast effect across the region, including here in the republic of moldova. as of today, as the president said, an estimated 240,000 people from crew crane have crossed the border to moldova, fleeing for their lives.

they're mostly women and children. they numbering will grow. moldova deserves the world's gratitude for welcoming and protecting ukrainians, and as the prime minister and the foreign minister and i discussed today, the united states will do all we can to help for moldova as its cares for people who have already been through so much. our administration has requested of congress, $2.75 million in emergency assistance, humanitarian assistance, both to meet the people inside ukraine and to help the countries like moldova supporting the refugees and addressing the humanitarian crisis from outside. they have the ability to help moldova with the impacts of war. russia's invasion of ukraine is

an invasion on its sovereignty. 140 countries at the united neighs stood up on those principles and against their assault on them. united states wants to make sure our support and integrity of all countries including the republic of moldova. countries have the right to choose their own futures. moldova has chosen a path of real, inclusivity, and closer relationship with the countries in europe. the united states supports moldova in those efforts. our partnership addresses the key challenges of our time, the things that we should be working on and focused on, which is exactly another reason why this war of choice is such a terrible thing. it takes us away from thing wes need to be working on together, but we'll continue to do that.

the united states delivered hundreds of thousands of covid vaccines to moe dough have and millions of dollars in pandemic-related assistance. greater energy security is vital for your sovereignty. we support the esc to find a comprehensive settlement. we'll seek every opportunity to deepen the ties between our countries. economic ties, educational ties, people-to-people ties because we want our friendship with the people of moldova to grow even stronger. in the face of the global challenges that we face today, we're all going to be much more successful when we work together as with partners