joe zelinski. no, it's not going to happen. they don't, let's what this on the back burner for at least 25 years. i'm a moratorium for 25 years. so then you would have gone along with, i mean, you wouldn't have any choice but not to put that pressure on the fact that the response of the western powers was when russia submitted those ultimatums in december 17th. well, we're just rejecting it, you know, who is russian to tell us what to do. you know, we decide security policy. it was the western powers that treated these demands with arrogance, and refused even to understand how serious the russians are taking it over and over again. we said we want legal guarantees, we don't want empty promises. legal guarantees. so it's not only immediate the agenda and they go should just fix that. not on the media agenda. so, you know, it was a major power brokers crisis about the over the last couple of days from the kremlin spokesperson to meet with his car. he said that europe needs to sober up from the american bourbon. ok, which i think

joe biden describing this war as a genocide. how has president zalinski a responded to that? well, zelinski praised biden for using this term genocide against ukrainians. he took to twitter saying that those are true words from a true leader. he also said that it is now essential to cold the things by their names. he encourage other leaders to do the same. however, we also so already that some of them in particular, the french president, a manuel my call, our warning against using this to him, saying that to there are against are the escalation of words. however, for the recording and president who has been accusing the russian forces of carrying out a genocide again, sir, he's people, it is very important now to hear from the you as president who is using the same term because of course, he's hoping for more help from the you ask for more weapons. however, the key question he would be whether you ask would fundamentally change its response to the war. whether they would, for instance, decide to have american boots on the ground. that is not likely to happen because joe biden has rolled it

joe. how about the top stories here and al jazeera ukrainian president vladimir zelinski says russia has begun a full scale offensive to take control of eastern regions. he says invading forces are attacking along a 480 kilometer front and dumbass where russian batt separatists have declared their own republics, rushes refocused its operations towards the region. after failing to capture the capital, keefe, zamora cook, now we can already state that russian troops have begun the battle for the dumbass to which they have been preparing for a long time. a significant part of the entire russian army is now concentrated on this offensive. no matter how many russian troops are driven.

and the secretary of defense zelinski had said that he still wants to extend an invitation to us president joe biden. but despite you know, the u. k prime minister being there in person despite other presidents having visited, well the u. s. assessment is that it's still too dangerous to send by an artist and vice president common le harris. and so the visit of these 2 cabinet secretaries may be as close to a state visit as ukraine can get under the circus. under the current circumstances . in eastern ukraine, russian forces are trying to seize territory village by village across a wide front line. charles stratford reports from this chance an eastern ukraine. the soldiers said there had been a law in shelling, so we drove into the sea chance. slike heaps from one of the many coal mines and the don bass region skull. the skyline military vehicles drive down virtually empty streets. a splintered tree shows where a russian shell exploded. businesses bought it up or destroyed. the sign on the bunker door says children inside, but even the children are no longer here. russian force easy to control

and the secretary of defense zelinski had said that he still wants to extend an invitation to us president joe biden. but despite you know, the u. k prime minister being there in person despite other presidents having visited, well the u. s. assessment is that it's still too dangerous to send by an artist and vice president common le harris. and so the visit of these to cabinet secretaries may be as close to a state visit as ukraine can get under the circle under the current circumstances will also very sort of critical time in terms of showing support you crane. and it comes at the same time, you might say, where the landscape is saying, send me more munitions. and president biden has been talking about sort of an approval of bull money required by congress, or you can send those munitions to ukraine. that's right. and in fact, there were some $800000000.00 of more military assistance that was just announced by bite and heading to ukraine. some of that being delivered as we speak, and tomorrow, when these 2 secretaries will be there. and these are weapons that, according to the pentagon, were

and the secretary of defense zelinski had said that he still wants to extend an invitation to us president joe biden. but despite you know, the u. k prime minister being there in person despite other presidents having visited, well the u. s. assessment is that it's still too dangerous to send by an artist and vice president pamela harris. and so the visit of these to cabinet secretaries may be as close to a state visit as ukraine can get under the circle under the current circumstances. hi, jed counselor that will, let's bring in holland omen. he is a military expert on the atlantic council. and the forward visor to the us department of defense joins me now via skype from washington. dc. good, have you with us to open on the program again, a significant visit by us official if they arrives and the ukranian president has said nothing more than to bring gifts or certainly not come empty handed of course in we need to make sure we're getting the right military equipment as quickly as possible to ukraine. but there's a larger issue here. and that's always the threat that if the russian offensive i

and the secretary of defense zelinski had said that he still wants to extend an invitation to us president joe biden. but despite, you know, the u. k prime minister being there in person despite other presidents having visited, well the u. s. assessment is that it's still too dangerous to send by an artist and vice president common la harris. and so the visit of these to cabinet secretaries may be as close to a state visit as ukraine can get under the circles. under the current circumstances . at least 8 people, including a baby, had been killed during missile strikes on ukraine, southern ports that have a desa further 18 were injured in the attack, which russia says targeted a military facility. russia says it'll deploy a new salma intercontinental ballistic missiles later this year. but some experts adapt will say more tests the needed. russia says the sediment, myself can carry 10 or more nuclear warheads and a capable of reaching anywhere present. vladimir putin as attended an easter mass conducted by the russian orthodox church, which a strong me back the ukraine war. church leaders aroun

and the secretary of defense zelinski had said that he still wants to extend an invitation to us president joe biden. but despite you know, the u. k prime minister being there in person despite other presidents having visited, well the u. s. assessment is that it's still too dangerous to send by an artist and vice president common la harris. and so the visit of these to cabinet secretaries may be as close to a state visit as ukraine can get under the circus. under the current circumstances . chose to join the live now from the city of love. young's can eastern ukraine, which is close to the front line, a chas. tell us about the latest on fighting where you are. yeah, wearing sloppy and squint. she's one of the largest cities that it's still fully on the ukraine in control, in the utah done by some region. it's a city that was briefly taking control of my pro russian san francisco in 2015 before they were forced out by the ukranian army. we've had an air raid sirens and aero showing. we've had a siren going now for a least half an hour. and as you can see, the streets here pretty much empty. mo

joe. next at 11. today we still believe in the new victory of ukraine and we are all convinced that we will not be destroyed. the highest level meeting yet in ukraine between president zelinsky and the u. s secretary of state and defense secretary as orthodox christians celebrate a very somber eastern the 11 o'clock news on ktvu. fox two starts now. hello again, everyone. i'm heather holmes and i'm julie julie haener. the meeting was held under tight security in kiev. afterward the us announced more direct military aid and the sale of ammunition to help ukraine defend its homeland against russia. it's all comes as ukraine is now marking two months since the russian invasion began. ukraine says eight people were killed in the port city of odessa today after russian missile struck a residential block. a mother and her three month old baby are among the dead. to the east. in the city of mariupol. russian troops launched new airstrikes on the steel plant were more than 1000. ukrainian soldiers and civilians are trapped efforts tse