the morning while to help us get through this developing story database, charles mcfadden joins me in the studio for more. charles took us through what's been happening in the last hour before we get into that, rebecca, i've been reporting on ukraine fight years. this is a remarkable and very dark moment in european history, and i think that flighty met putin. the saw that we just heard from him that the quote that we just heard from him was absolutely full of false misinformation, obviously designed to put off an army that he's now declared. he's fighting. now i would just wanted to take you through what vladimir putin said. he said that the government of ukraine was near not in fact, it's not. it's led by jewish president. he said that the far right was in charge of ukraine. in fact, at the last election, it received less than 2 percent of the vote. now he made a see a series of remarks at climbing the heritage of the said, the 2nd world war for russia i ukrainians would say on the other hand that millions of them died in the 2nd world war as well and, and millions of them for in th

if we have minimum date of the report, charles mcfadden joins me now in the studio with more on president salenti reaction . charles, welcome. what were the main messages of his speech? anthony, i think that president zelinski had 3 audiences in mind as he delivered the speech . firstly, there was a reaction to vladimir putin and, and that very angry, some would say, very aggressive speech, which really sought to betray you. crane as, as somewhat of a fight country. now letting me zalinski replied, where proud people with a proud history, where we're going to talk about here and now we're going to talk about how to prevent war. so for letting me put number one, number 2, he's trying to prevent a lot of demonstrations from voters in the east of the country. there are hundreds of thousands of internally displaced. people who've had to flee the fighting. many of them will feel like they can't go home now after this announcement by letting me potent so flooding me. zalinski said where peaceful people and i think he was talking to those voters. and thirdly, he had a message for the world, anth

that was r d w, corresponded to charles mcfadden. thanks for being with us. charles. now let's get the latest her from brussels. our correspondent, alexandra front. nomine join. just from there. alexander, the, you're, europe, is just waking up to this is just shortly before 7 am here anna in germany and also in brussels. we're getting some responses coming already from the german leader. or what else are you hearing from, from brussels, from you in nato leaders? well, of course, all of them are condemning russia's actions in ukraine, and it's quite interesting that the senior european representatives, european leaders are a such as the president of the european commission, the president of the european council, and all of them a half published at this same statement condemning russia's actions as i sat speaking of dark hours in europe, seeing that they are thoughts are with the innocent people, women, children, men in ukraine, quite a strong statement. and of course, a condemning this unprovoked attack. and also promising that they will hold the kremlin accountable.