[000:00:00;00] calmly honors the memory of the heroes of the heavenly hundred paintings dancing in paris, a unique exhibition of the works of maria pryimachenko and taras shevchenko has opened 8 p.m. in ukraine time to catch up results monday, february 20 on the air intera information service i am oleksandr vasyshchenko i congratulate the visit that brings victory closer without announcements and us president joe biden unexpectedly arrived in kyiv today under the cover of vulture, and this is without exaggeration a historic event not only because it is the first visit by an american leader at the beginning of the war in general in the last 15 years, but also because the american the president came to a warring

country for the first time, and this rumor is a signal both for our partners to give us more support and for russia , so why did biden come, is he confident in the victory of ukraine and did the americans get scared by the air alarm, all the details of the short but important visit are known by a na kamenev the most unexpected without announcements and the most secret about the visit of the president of the united states joe biden to kyiv, only a limited number of people, up to 10 people, knew, even on journalists, until the last, they did not tell who exactly arrived at the mariinsky palace and i note that there was no outpouring of information from dawn. the streets of the capital were already under the supervision of dozens of policemen. later, the roads were closed, so there were considerable traffic jams. the historic visit of the president of the united states was the first, not only at the beginning of a full-scale war, but also in the last 15 years . it was prepared in a few days, and the date was chosen by biden, the president. ukraine

has invited the president of the united states to ukraine many times at any time, and president joe biden , the president of the united states, accordingly decided that the best time is right now, on the eve of several anniversaries a few days ago, we received a signal that this invitation was accepted and, accordingly, preparations for it began. i assure you that this visit is a surprise for many . i knew that there was a visit to poland . i was convinced that there would be a meeting with our president. i'll tell you. frankly speaking, this is a historic moment - the president of the united states arrived at the mariinsky palace . this is joe biden's seventh visit to ukraine. previously, he was here as a vice president, and this is the first time. as a head

of state, kyiv has captured part of it hearts, the meeting of the tet was supposed to last 30 minutes, however, they took a lot longer. it is clear that before the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, the leader has something to talk about, in particular, military and financial aid to our country, almost 2 hours of negotiations, and the leaders of ukraine and the united states go to the press. jibaiting remembers the night when the war began when few people believed that ukraine would survive, now there is no doubt that the step-top is impressive how everyone comes to the aid of women and even small children, this is the largest land war in europe in three years a quarter of a century and you are winning despite other opinions and forecasts you are winning you continue to do it you and all ukrainians remind the world every day what courage means that freedom has no price it is priceless it is worth fighting for it as much as it takes and that is how much we will

to stay with you. this was a conversation that really brings our joint victory in this war closer. we can and must make this year, the 23rd, the year of victories. i want to emphasize this unprovoked and criminal russian war against ukraine, the whole of europe and of the democratic world, the cleansing of the entire ukrainian land from russian occupation must be completed, and with firm guarantees of the long-term security of our state, which is the way for all of europe and the whole world, we know that difficult days , weeks, and years lie ahead. putin's goal is to erase ukraine from the map . putin thought that ukraine was weak and the west is divided. he thought he could survive us , i don't think he still thinks so, he was just plain wrong a year later, the evidence is here in this room we stand here together a year later

kyiv stands and ukraine stands democracy the americans stand with you and the world stands with you, the world that already continues to provide equipment to ukraine, this is 700 tanks and more than a thousand armored vehicles, the same number of artillery systems and 2 million shells for them, the usa has already prepared a new aid package worth half a billion dollars, man, there will be additional ones ammunition for heimers javelin additional systems that will provide an opportunity to protect the ukrainian people from bombing later this week we will announce new sanctions that will not allow bypassing the sanctions mechanisms and this help for ukraine is extremely it is important and right now such a car will definitely not have a chance for revenge attempts during the session and together we will protect our ukrainian cities and our people from the terror of russia, we will powerfully strengthen the momentum towards our victory, the results of these

visits will definitely be felt on the battlefield in the strengthening of our soldiers and the liberation of our territories we also discussed the issue of long-range weapons and weapons that can still be supplied to ukraine and why they were not there, and this is very important. at the meeting , the leaders did not clarify the issue of fighter jets for ukraine. however, on the sidelines, the minister of defense assured that this issue was actually resolved first. the tank initiative , which was born in certain heads, the field was worked out, then it became a tank coalition, too, believe me with the planes, the initiative already exists. it remains to decorate this aircraft coalition . on the big account i already know it for sure, i feel it, count on it to be solved already, it’s just a matter of choosing which

platform is best to be the main base russia has bear responsibility for the aggression and compensate for the damages, this was also discussed at the meeting of the united nations , we will beat them on every international platform . square and visited the cathedral, and russia would not be with us if it did not react to biden's visit to kyiv in its aggressor style. despite the anxiety , biden zelenskyi continued to calmly walk through the square, after which they placed flowers on the wall in memory of those who died for ukraine and honored them with a minute of silence. and for the stone details, the inter marathon tv channel is the only news. the 3rd president of the usa who visited ukraine during the time

of independence. in addition to him , bill clinton came several times, and in 2008, george bursh jr. and joe biden himself until today, he was in ukraine quite often, as many as six times, although in a different status . what was the most memorable visit of the first us officials to ukraine? at the beginning of april 2008, the 43rd president of the united states george bush jr. visited kyiv together with the then president of ukraine viktor yushchenko, they signed the ukraine-usa action plan for the next two years, but the most important thing then was bush's signal of support for the aspirations of ukraine and georgia to join nato, i will continue to clearly explain the american position, we support the plan for ukraine and georgia to help ukraine become a member of nato in

the interests of each member country of the alliance , until a year later, the first official visit of joe biden to ukraine took place as the vice president of the usa in this position, the current american leader visited kyiv as many as six times after 2009, he came to the ukrainian capital three times in 2014 and once in 2015 and 2017, each visit was accompanied by the message that washington continues to support the independence and sovereignty of ukraine except that biden became the first high-ranking american official to speak in the verkhovna rada of ukraine, his speech was then called historic. let me be frank, the united states of america will never recognize russia's attempts to annex crimea, that's all, full stop, the record holder for visits to ukraine as the president of the usa was bill clinton. he visited us three times in 1994. he had a short meeting with the first

president of ukraine, leonid kravchuk, at the boryspil airport on the eve of the signing of the agreement in moscow on the nuclear destruction of ukraine in 1995. clinton came to kyiv to sign documents in the field of nuclear security together with president leonid kuchma. clinton's last visit to ukraine was in 2000. the main topic of negotiations then was the closure at the end of the chernobyl nuclear power plant , i will say that obama came to ukraine during his two presidential terms, he did not come to ukraine for even such a visit and the preparations for the visit turned out to be too busy. next and let's talk with our special forces and the united states dmytro manopchenko he is with us now live from washington dima i congratulate you

a historic event took place today and do you know how many people knew about an unexpected stop in kyiv is always worthy of a historical event. and i can absolutely share with you all the details that until this moment we were asked not to disclose. so it's a mystery. according to the plan according to the schedule of the american president, he was only supposed to fly directly to warsaw today. and the press suspected something only at the moment when instead of being at andrew air force base, where does flight number one take off from? around five o'clock , two before departure, they were asked to gather on the second of the 15th night, moreover, i talked with colleagues who are now accompanying the american president in that meal, this is the so-called presidential poltok, they told me that even they were not told why they had to be near the ladder and the crane and at the moment when they

appeared in front of all the press, the security took away their mobile phones so that they could not inform. not only where they were flying, they did not know until the last but also just write to the editors that the plane will take off, well, almost a day earlier, well, the president got on board at four in the morning and the number of people accompanying it sash, to your question, how many people knew, see the american president is flying abroad on a visit, the number of people accompanying him is only three people, this is jake salliveradnik from national security and only two assistants to biden. well, the white house - it is also interesting , published information that this visit will take place only at 5:07 in the morning that is, at the moment when the presidential plane was already in the air for a long time, this board, which is interesting, is also impossible to see on popular online services through which we always track any flights, for example its it is not on the flat radar, the only thing we saw on the flat radar. perhaps you will now see this map and those shots. it is that the entire time biden was in kyiv on the border of ukraine and poland

, american strategic reconnaissance aircraft were circling along the border, but only from the polish side. polish airspace from the polish side well, how did biden get to kyiv from poland , the white house asks that this not be disclosed for the time being, not only before biden leaves ukraine, it has already happened, but also before how will the polish part of his visit even end, this is all for security reasons, for important and interesting reasons, there are two details that jake salliveradniki from national security reported to the press , the phone call with well and he reported first that a few hours before biden was supposed to cross the ukrainian border the united states informed russia about this, however, this is not a negotiation, it is there for some kind of bidding, they were simply notified in order to ensure the safety of the american president, and of course sally, she also asked how many people about this

they knew how decisions were made, he said that literally only a few persons in the state department, in the team of the american president and in the pentagon knew about this visit . he said that he had been preparing for the last two or three months and all this time they were weighing yes or no . is it possible or not? is it safe to fly? don't fly well, just a few days ago, biden made the final decision. so it was his personal decision, he talked to his assistants on the phone for the last time. well, and he understood that it was necessary to fly, after that it was confirmed by kyiv. well, that's it. preparations have begun, so he was right when he said that this is the first time the american president goes to a country where there is a war and where there is no american contingent, that is, in this way, we do not count iraq and afghanistan in the white house. we were explained that despite what was brought to our attention russian this trip was associated with a great risk for the american president and therefore it had to be his personal decision and

he made it. well, let's talk about what will happen next. what will happen in poland, where is he already? the american president, in principle, due to the fact that according to the plan he was supposed to fly there only tomorrow morning, the program has not shifted , we know for sure that tomorrow morning he will have talks with the polish president , we know that poland is actively preparing for the meeting of the eight, which will take place the day after tomorrow and another very important moment at 5:30 p.m. local time, biden will give a speech , it will be a huge speech open to the public , open to the press in the presence of thousands of people , and as the strategic coordinator explained to us to the us security council, jovan kirby, in many respects, it will be dedicated to ukraine, it will be dedicated to this war, biden will talk about the way out he sees, biden will talk about the future, and biden, as kirby said, will express

unconditional support for ukraine, in any case, everyone here is waiting for those statements that biden will do it, but you know, the whole world is now discussing not even what will happen in warsaw , the whole world is now following what happened in kyiv. well , they are discussing the statements that were made in ukraine, colleagues kyiv. thank you, dima, for this information, it was our dmytro nopchenko about the further program of joe biden's visit to europe and the expectation of this trip, real hysteria in the russians was caused by the visit of us president joe biden to the ukrainian capital in social networks and telegram channels traditionally called for missiles to be fired at kiev, at the same time , along with this z patriotic hysteria, many people wrote completely different messages they say that biden was not afraid to come to ukraine, which is in a state of war, while putin has never visited the so-called

sfo zone, even a joke appeared that in response to biden's visit to kyiv putin moved to the other side of the table, and one of the russian propagandists called biden's arrival literally a demonstrative humiliation of russia. today , another distinguished guest came to the house for a visit . to his telegram, imf support creates an opportunity for ukraine to remain strong, it is also a weapon, an economic weapon that enables us , our society, our business to develop. we really want business to develop. investments are coming in and we know that the imf always sends the right signals through its activities. the head of state wrote the war in ukraine and the preservation of peace in the world. for three days , the participants of the 59th munich security

conference discussed the main challenges of the world at the most influential international security forum with the leaders of the countries , diplomats and military experts were gathered and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi spoke online, and the official representation of russia, as last year, the conference was not the result of the forum in the material of olga zhydetska in the center of munich demonstrators with blue and yellow flags remind the participants of the 59th security conference russian aggression against ukraine for today the main challenge of the world the war in ukraine the main topic of this year's forum on the first day volodymyr zelensky spoke via video link the ukrainian president calls on partners not to delay decisions on the supply of weapons, we need speed speed of our agreements speed

of delivery speed of decisions to limit there is no alternative to russia's potential for speed, because speed is what life depends on, opposition to russia is an important factor in restoring global security, other leaders agree and also talk about the speed of decision-making, and here there is an obvious striking contrast with the confusion and lack of confidence of western politicians almost a year ago when russia started a full-scale war to provide tanks to ukraine is now being called upon even by the german chancellor, who a month ago had his last doubts. we will do what germany can do to facilitate this decision for our partners, for example, by training ukrainian soldiers here in germany or supporting supplies and logistical support , for me this is an example of the leadership that everyone can expect from germany, the world must be ready for a protracted war, therefore , the production of weapons should be increased

. the french president also speaks about this, manuel's position macron during this stormy year has also radically changed from trying to save putin to a radical russia must be defeated, we are ready to step up today because the next weeks and months are decisive and we are ready for a prolonged conflict, it is absolutely obvious that today is not the time for dialogue because we have a russia that has chosen war, that has decided to intensify the war, and that has decided to go as far as committing war crimes and attacking civilian infrastructure, among other important ideas the basis for the future of the peace, which should also strengthen the security council, one of its conditions is the responsibility of russia for committing crimes , the vice president of the usa directly calls them crimes against humanity in the case of russia's actions

in ukraine, we have examined the evidence, we know legal standards and there is no doubt that these are crimes against humanity, and the british prime minister is in solidarity with this, he calls on partners to double the supply of weapons to ukraine and provide combat aviation, and he is also confident that nato should offer ukraine long-term assurances of support and the world should help with the recovery of the country after the war . hold russia accountable we must see justice through the international criminal court for their horrific war crimes committed in bush irpen mariupol and russia must also be held accountable for the terrible destruction it has caused, we are hosting a conference on the reconstruction of ukraine in london in june, and we must consider together how to ensure that russia pays for this reconstruction, supporting ukraine is not only a moral decision, it is

general security , says the nato secretary general. strengthened the european union and the north atlantic alliance, this challenge became an impetus for development and changes that were long overdue. the consensus regarding ukraine is higher than ever and inspires optimism regarding the future aid and regarding european integration prospects, the current munich was very, very fruitful for our country and important decisions were not made there, but here are the contacts, informal negotiations that were there, and i think that this is the foundation for the future important decisions for our country, not only rational theses and the discussion , but also the emotions that reached our partners were transmitted to our partners, it was also very important, on the other hand, the chairman of the munich conference expressed his hope that he would personally take

the participation of the president of ukraine and this will mark the end of the cruel and senseless war unleashed by the kremlin in europe olga zhydetska details tv channel inter marathon the only news nobody is waiting for western military aid as much as the guys on the front lines against the background of such symbolic events as the visit of the american president, he is ready to tell about the housewarming party ruslan smishchuk ruslan, i congratulate you, the word of oleksandra welcomes you well, here in the east, a hard front winter continues at the moment, the russians are pressing on such a wide area of ​​the front from kharkiv oblast to ugledar. and there is especially tension in this area, and there are such zones, first of all, it is in the area of ​​the crimean area, everything is firing there, and because it is conducted from a short distance to skirmishes

in the trenches, before the constant exchange of artillery strikes, some positions sometimes simply change. from hand to hand, there is already such a traditional tense and extremely difficult point - this is bakhmut, and despite the insane losses, the russians continue to use the tactics that they they themselves have already started calling these meat assaults waves of assault infantry over and over again, they just use up their ammunition and try to push out the ukrainian defenders little by little , they receive fierce resistance, but i repeat it is so extremely difficult section and there are constant battles a-and further on this is the edge of the donetsk agglomeration, that is, the front line from avdiyivka , where the enemy is trying to attack but unsuccessfully, and e. there, through marivka, krasnohorivka, here along

the city line, e-e, in addition, vugledar is another e- such a point is extremely difficult and tense a-and there, the russians tried to attack several times and got crazy losses , but nevertheless they constantly put pressure on the ukrainian defenders . ah, that is, russian rockets fly over these cities every week, sometimes day after day, and unfortunately, people die every week. well, this is such a reality that donetsk has already existed there for a year, even more, ah,

nevertheless, the defense force eh are led by bitter battles and talk about some such uh-uh cardinal change on the front a-uh unfortunately or fortunately we can't we continue to work with our defenders and in the next broadcasts uh we will show you uh directly how the defense of uh ukrainian is happening the land from the russian occupiers. thank you, ruslana, for this information. it was our soldier oleksandr mishchuk about the situation on the front lines of life under round-the-clock shelling. the occupiers do not stop firing everywhere. shells are flying day and night. the once crowded streets have been emptied. children are born in bomb shelters, the only thing that hasn't changed is the happiness of young mothers from the appearance of a new life, despite the war, olena mandylyuk saw all this insidiously in broad daylight, the occupier opened fire on nikopol again

. one of the shells hit a high-rise building. it was pretty tattered, but the ceiling survived , there is nothing there, uh, plates, we are pulling them, we will not even change them, that is, they are a little damaged well, superficially, but basically the apartment is normal. nothing was hit. peaceful city, the occupiers shelled on a day off when people were at home. miraculously, no one was hurt. he tells the saleswoman from the store located in the same building at the time of the shooting that the women were at work. usually there are dogs and children and strollers and people in the alley. vladyslav helps his neighbors cover broken windows with osb sheets - he says the russian army was targeting the residential quarter. the first hit was

his house, the next projectile hit the the nearby high-rise building. basically, the wave went to the corner, and then in the evening, the usb came right there, grandmothers, grandfathers, we are here, er , everything gathered and flew here, everything hit the house , everything ran, the bomb shelter , the russian army has somewhat changed the tactics of strikes, they note in the city council, daily shelling has become more frequent, it is more threatening for the residents of the city, in the last two sundays, two people have died in us, so we have been injured, and now we have about three and a half thousand buildings, structures that have been

damaged, that's all, and its private buildings and high-rise hospitals and schools, the maternity hospital also came under fire, a shell fell right next to the fence, the blast wave was so powerful that the metal-plastic windows in the building were blown out, our department was damaged, several windows were blown out in ours, and the fence was damaged, fortunately, all the women were in the bomb shelter, the patients are descending every time a threat of shelling is announced in the city, 25 beds have been placed there and an operating room has been set up , where two patients can give birth at the same time an old chair, but it is on it, you can perform an operation if necessary, the institute we have eight lamps, that is, if we need it, we can provide full assistance here, more than 60 babies were born in this dungeon, so to speak, here was giving birth and tatiana remembers when the seizures began, she was immediately taken to the operating bomb shelter everything went well and the main thing is that the mother admits that she is safe and her little

mykhailo weighs almost 4 kg and is 54 cm tall, it is safer, you feel here, you feel me all everything is so calm here in general. i am so sure that everything will be fine, that even if a friend is nearby, god forbid, and flies in, everything will be fine here. it is warm here now , the water can be a little bad, it is a treat at night, the doctors say, and the women in labor and the doctors are already used to it. shelling and to constant threats in the main thing is that they have someone to live and work for, we give birth to ukraine, ukrainian women do not give up , the best men protect us, and women give birth to us, uh, a new generation, gathering for victory from the dnipropetrovsk region, olena modelyuk