. >> reporter: before he became chief of staff to a celebrated wartime president, 50-year-old andriy yermak. his close friend, volodymyr zelenskyy, an entertainment executive and well-known actor. now just two years into his cabinet position, yermak and zelenskyy are fighting a war on the world stage. and yermak says, this is exactly where they are meant to be. how did you get here? >> i can say first of all, i have my real profession is a lawyer. yes, of course, some period of time i'm in the parallel. i work like movie producers. but if we're talking about volodymyr zelenskyy, i can say first of all, it's a very simple understanding of him. i think just this very tragic situation and this terrible war in ukraine show for all the world that he's a real leader. he is a leader, and he is the person who is coming to this politics career for one reason -- to change our country. maybe two years ago, i said in some interview that i'm sure that our president will be the leader as minimum of our part of europe and maybe more. a lot of critics was here. ukrainians said, what is it? it's like a joke

helped a lot is true. >> pelley: zelenskyy's man in charge of arming ukraine is chief-of-staff, andriy yermaken we met, he'd just finished a two-hour call with u.s. national security advisor, jake sullivan and the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley. yermak asked for heavier weapons-faster-first there was artillery. >> yermak: the second, we need the tanks. we need the military jets. and we need everything which give to us opportunity to closed our sky. >> pelley: when you ask the biden administration for artillery, tanks, jet airplanes. the administration says what? >> yermak: we had very deep and very detailed conversation. this is american president who has done for ukraine more than all other president. but then you have the war and we have openly said we need more. it's not enough. we need it as soon as possible. if we receive this support in time, we will win. >> pelley: a white house official tells us, yermak got a "yes" to his requests. but filling orders takes time. the ukrainians need russian made weapons that they already know how to use. the u.s. is cajoling allies t

federation of the russian federation , which was developed by an international expert group led by andriy yermakd michael mcfaul, a separate point of negotiations financial support for ukraine for ukraine, continued discussion and the issue of security guarantees for ukraine, i am sure that the united states can be a leader among future countries-guarantors of the security of ukraine was hear from our friends confirmation that the united states embassy again will work in kiev in the near future, there will also be the appointment of a new us ambassador to ukraine , this is a very useful gesture of support for our state. the statement of the president of russia putin just called external restrictions against the russian federation sanctions aggression that said that in the forefront of the task of the west is to split the russian society to destroy the country from the inside, but this does not work out further i quote there are no explanations yet. let's just record what the president said while enduring the information fiasco in russia, the west turned to attempts to kill russian journalists. w

when he interviewed andriy yermak, the head of the zelensky station, he was his right hand. i asked him. should president biden come, he said joe byton leader of the free world. it is he who should come here, because it is not only about the future of ukraine, the future of democracy is at stake. svoboda is under pressure to come here, see if that happens? right now, it’s really one of the main questions, especially since the head of the office of the president of ukraine, yermak, really told the americans in plain text that it was joe who was waiting in kiev if the free world was cut. he should have come himself to demonstrate to putin the unity of the west with ukraine, but old joe absolutely does not understand what the hell is going on, and america itself is going to hell donald trump is a direct quote again criticized biden, including for curious cases with a repeated, that is, there was already a repeated handshake with emptiness and the recent incident with the easter video trump said that nothing good shines for the usa when the commander in chief publicly greets the

little surprised that president zelensky publicly announced an upcoming visit when he interviewed andriy yermak of zelensky's administration, he is his right hand. i asked him. should president biden come, he told joe byton leader of the free world. it is he who must come here, because it is not only about the future of ukraine, the future of democracy is at stake freedom why didn’t biden come, if kiev wins this war, i quote blinkin now, actually the main question, especially since the head of the office of the president of ukraine yermak told the americans in plain text that it was joe who was expected in kiev baydan say, as the leader of the free world. biden himself was supposed to come and demonstrate to putin and the unity of the west with ukraine, but old joe absolutely does not understand. what the hell is happening now, and america itself is rolling into this direct quote from donald trump again criticized the american president, including because of the curious case of the handshake of the void, biden, twice said hello to someone invisible in the past 7 days of races. forged trump and

the head of the office of the president of ukraine, andriy yermak, argued on cnn that the concept of security guarantee is yesterday and allies. now they are discussing something like a new system of international security with ukraine at the center of this system of autodesvas, of course, after the war and the heroic struggle of the ukrainian people. we have an absolute right to be not only a part of this new system. and to be at its price to be one of the leaders of this new world security system, however, potential guarantor countries the leaders of turkey are not talking about anything like this, not in the best step the day before, for which security guarantees in the presentation of ukraine are a tracing paper of an agreement between nato countries, but you could be realistic and prescribe something like easing sanctions in exchange for the withdrawal of russian troops in the office of emmanuel macron, reuters was told about security guarantees kiev will be able to speak only after the conclusion of a peace treaty with russia the adviser to the french president said that france

in an online post, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky�*s chief of staff, andriy yermak, saysfive people were killed and 18injured in the assault. and 18 injured in the assault. in the city of mariupol, russian forces appear to be trying to storm the azovstal steel works, where ukraine's remaining forces in the city are holding out. to storm the azovstal steel works, where ukraine's remaining forces russians are said to have resumed air strikes on the plant in the south—east of the country. from ukraine, danjohnson sent this report. more ukrainian homes are coming underfire. shelling's intensified in kharkiv and across the east of the country, but intelligence assessments say the russians aren't gaining much ground. still, the ukrainian president is warning of the fight he believes is to come. translation: the russian invasion of ukraine was intended _ as only the beginning. then they want to capture other countries. of course, we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of the russian federation. the ukrainians are fighting back. they claim this shows

we sat down with an exclusive interview with a man behind ukraine's new action plan, andrii yermak at the compound. >> thank you, it's an honor to speak with you, we've meanted with michael mcfall, and our plan, somebody called it a plan of mcfall, but in the truth, i'm three weeks ago apply to michael this proposal to create some group of experts, international experts and ukrainian who will deeply analyze already issued sanctions, what works, what does have beautiful title, but zero by effect, because there is effect. the war is continuing. the ukrainians continue to killed by russians, killed our children, our woman, our man, our soldier, our civilian and destroying our city. it's absolutely understandable that these sanctions, which exist, it's not enough. griff: what's the strongest part of this new sanctions? >> fuel embargo, russian energy because it's a very big part of their budget. we proposed to issue these sanctions for all russians banks. increase the numbers of the physical person, because it's necessary to concentrate the first wave of the sanctions, it was against they

according to the head of the president's office andriy yarmak of ukraine, all this will allow us to knock out the russian army from our territories, yermaklso emphasized that land forest means the confidence of the united states in the victory of ukraine over russia. well, let's talk about this significant event for the course of the ukrainian-russian war with our guest, who is in direct contact with valery tsypkalo, belarusian statesman, diplomat, leader, initiator and founder of the belarusian high-tech park , ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary valery good night good night and please tell me the law on lend-lease to which for more than a dozen years and what is its uniqueness and in fact it is so you know historical historical well uh unique thing yes thanks to lend-lease the soviet union won the war for nazi germany and now we sincerely hope that thanks to the law on lenglist ukraine will defeat russia russia, you are absolutely right, i understand that yours is a dead historical parallel, eh, really, eh, the soviet union hid it, but it was thanks to oleg liz that the victory of the soviet union became possible, then 20,000

andriy yarmak sent foreign countries. he presented an action plan regarding sanctions against the kremlin, the next restrictions were worked out by yermak'sernational expert group mcfaul's plan is aimed at depriving russia of finance, production capabilities and technologies used for war, forcing the russian federation to focus on overcoming internal problems and russian citizens to pay for the promotion of aggression. it is sanctions that should be applied against the russian federation, we are not so naive as to expect that economic pressure on the aggressor country will lead to a quick end hostilities, however, this second front, the front of international sanctions, will significantly limit the aggressive aspirations of russia, usually the best pacifier has always been economic hardship, you see the dynamics of this war, you see that we are not afraid to act, we act decisively, we sacrifice ourselves for the sake of victory in this war, and we ask you we are grateful for the fact that you stand by us and support us as well. we ask you to do everything in order to end this war as soon as possible thanks to the sanctions pressure. well,