it's good to be back in kyiv.elling the president that one of the staff members on the flight to poland asked me how many times i've been to kyiv. hay i had to stop and think. it's my eighth trip. much has changed. also, the ukrainian people stepped up in a way few people ever have when they're on the fence and have apparently embraced the notion of democracy, no longer discussions about whether or not certain privileged people have control. you know, i bring good will from the members of the congress and have a very good impression when i spoke to them last. and for all the disagreement we have in our congress on some issues, there is significant agreement on the support in ukraine. this is so much larger than just ukraine. it's about freedom of democracy in europe, it's about freedom of democracy at large. all the american people, i know so many, have kept the ukrainian people, particularly the women and children in their prayers, seeing what's happened. they can't fathom the shelling on everything from orphanag

media, where the audience is the vast majority of kyiv , either they do not support the issue of theytropol avenue or the second position is that if the name is already changed, then on something related to aviation because the thing is that for some reason this question is so irritating because povitroflotsky prospect today is a threaded axis around which a whole series of topons related to the aviation history of kyiv gathers and therefore this name is definitely perceived by the oceans as part of kyiv's heritage related to the research of e-e and with the achievement of the aviation industry with aircraft construction, and kyivans and ukrainians made a very outstanding contribution to world aviation in general. i will simply remind that e-e ukrainians created the first the ukrainians laid ground planes in the first one laid out the trajectories of flights to the moon which we later saw with you dear mr. martynenko kushlyanskyi because the story of povitroflotskyi well, i don't know. that is, we have to somehow delve deeper. well, we don't name dukhashvili and so on. where, so to s

how people are faring in a place like kyiv. describe kyiv to us. a lot of people don't realize what kyiv looks like now. n. comparison to when the war started. it isn't a city that is completely shut down and destroyed. people are going about their business the best they can. people have families and jobs. it is also not necessarily, sarah, a reflection of what the rest of the country looks like, right? if you travel towards the east, of course, where there is very heavy fighting but also to the south. it is recently liberated a few months ago but still continues to be shelled day in and day out. in many of these recently liberated areas, life is far rosie, right? you have minimal electricity, minimal running water. you have regular bombardment often. you have challenges of trying to rebuild in a situation that is very insecure. and interesting listening to the mayor of kyiv, he said one thing that stuck with me, listen, ukrainian soldiers showed how tough they are. we have the will and spirit. but that's not enough. and we heard president zelensky

george bush jr. visited kyiv in 2008. on the agenda of the negotiations between bush and the then ukrainian president , viktor yushchenko, were unbelievable prospects for ukraine's accession to after 15 years of nato, already against the background of a full-scale war, the american leader is coming to ukraine again, the fact of the us president's visit to the country is in itself open war, the unprecedented arrival of biden was not announced by either the american or ukrainian sides, and only when the news appeared this morning that the center of kyiv and the road from the bus station to the us embassy were blocked , suspicions arose that very high-ranking guests may be in kyiv, by the way, the first to biden's trip to ukraine was not reacted to by politicians, but by ordinary internet users. they did not wait for official messages from the authorities and began to build an alternative program for biden's stay in kyiv. of users on the social network jobiden could stand in line for kiev pastry, this is the most common meme

keep in mind, show me a tram , maybe a kyiv one, only preferably a kyiv one, not a swiss one.ome of today’s trolleybuses . oh, you see the trolleybuses going, i hope that this is today’s filming. by phone i congratulate you once again glory to ukraine managed to establish electricity supply for trolleybuses and trams what a beautiful mystery there was reveal to us all the secrets so that we understand that we are here we will win, there are no secrets, it’s just that the situation is becoming more stable, the power supply is more predictable , and based on this, we can return to the routes of additional electric transport . precisely because of the predictability of the power grid. what they are doing has probably not been done by any country in the world. well, as an example , on february 16, 31 trolleybus routes and 13 tram routes in the capital resumed operation, in total, the lines go to today there are 186 trolleybus routes and 157 trams. and how much is this in percentage before the war? is it half of all, or a third , or as many as there were, let's say, in these days o

. >> good evening from kyiv. i'm ali velshi. any moment now are expecting air force one to land with joe biden's planned visit to ukraine and the surprise visit to a. close here in kyiv there is a heavy feeling vetting zion-y air as the world waits and watches now to see how russian president vladimir putin will respond to ukraine's show of strength this week. today putin held a captive audience rally to celebrate the one year anniversary of his invasion, when your anniversary will be on friday. but this happened in a massive moscow stadium, the site of the 2018 world cup. the propaganda event which began with the performance of the russian singer gregory laps, who has faced allegations of ties to the mafia and who until earlier this month was on the u.s. sanctions list. it also featured a grim start involving a number of children the russia claims it rescued from ukraine, ignoring the fact that the only needed to be rescued in the first place because putin started a war. and in attrition dating back to the soviet union, governm

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keir, this arrival in kyiv by president biden comes on what is now noon, midday in kyiv and comes a day before president putin is scheduled to deliver his own key speech on this week, on the one-year anniversary. ahead of what's likely to be a spring offensive, the americans sort of front-loading weapons and other munitions to try to help the ukrainian people in advance of what's anticipated to be a very ugly spring, as the war effort by the russians picks up. >> reporter: that's right, peter. this is going to be a week of symbolism and defiance, both across the west and also here in russia. actually, russian television has now got a countdown clock for that speech by president putin, clearly building to a climax, if you like, tomorrow. we don't know what president putin is going to say. i will say one thing, peter, another extraordinary aspect of this trip by president biden to ukraine is it does appear the russians had no idea that the white house and the ukrainian president's office managed to pull this off without giving the russians even an inkling this was going to happen, that th

kyiv is the main goal russian troops advancing from the north on kyiv oblast, chernihiv oblast and sumyre to capture the capital of ukraine, and therefore the russians directed smaller resources to other cities . the invaders led an offensive along both banks of the dnieper with the aim of buying kyiv in three days. highways that led to the capital, in particular chernihiv-brewery glukhiv konotop nizhin and sumi-romny pryluky temna settlements that were outside the highways mostly managed to avoid military actions russian the landing force that landed in gostomel was shot ukrainian special forces of the defense forces blew up a number of dumps and bridges the flooded villages of dymer and demydiv stopped the enemy's advance on vyshhorod the defense forces directed the invaders to the narrow road to kyiv through the bridge in irpen it was here that the armed forces of ukraine conducted an ambush in which more than 111 vehicles were destroyed also russian tank convoys of the armed forces of ukraine were destroyed in buch and on the approaches of the dobrovars in kyiv itself, battles were

zelenskyi biden came to the center of kyiv and visited st. michael 's cathedral .joe biden honored the memory of ukrainian soldiers who died in the war with russia. this meeting took place under unprecedented measures on many streets of kyiv , traffic was prohibited in the center of people they asked not to open the windows, later president volodymyr zelenskyy summarized the negotiations with his american colleague were fruitful and very important. and the results of the meeting according to zelenskyi will be felt on the field, the honorable team of the president, biden, ah, i am glad to welcome you all to ukraine, and for me, for all of us , it is a great honor. which is really bringing our joint victory in this war closer, we can and must make this year the 23rd the year of victory. i want to emphasize this unprovoked and criminal russian war against ukraine, the whole of europe and democratic world must complete the cleansing of all ukrainian land from the occupation of russia and firm guarantees of long-term security . how successful were zelenskyi's intentions

kyiv captured my heart. i've come six times as vice president, once as president and in 2009 as vice president when i first came here and back in 2014 i came three times in the aftermath of the resolution of dignity and came in 2015, to address the ratta, about the work of building a strong democracy. and i came in 2017, just before i left office as vice president. i knew i'd be back, i wanted to be sure, even though the elections were over, barack obama and i were out of office, i decided to make one more trip before the next president was sworn in to kyiv. so president zelenskyy, you deeply honor me in kyiv today to meet with your diplomatic teams, community leaders who stepped up and helped their country in their hour of need, it is astounding who stood up, everybody. everybody. women and young children trying to do something, trying to do something. pulling people out of apartments and being shelled and i think is war crimes, it is astounding and the whole world, the whole world sees it and looks at it.

you can't get a reservation in kyiv here. kyiv is bustling. kyiv is buzzing. now kyiv is a microcosm. it's not indicative of what a large swath of the rest of the country look like. i think it's fair to say that it's been pretty extraordinary to see how this city in the face of constant air raid sirens, regular bombardment, drone attacks, manages to keep on moving. and to sort of really keep this posture of defiance and resilience that has come to embody ukraine's response to this entire invasion. >> thank you very much. get back to you in just a minute. kaitlan, back to new warsaw. >> krcnn is tracking all of thi. how the kremlin is going to respond to this? fred is live in moscow. we've been talking about this speech that president putin is giving tomorrow, i believe. that is also when president biden himself is speaking. we're going to see the dueling remarks as we close in on one year of the anniversary as remarkable of what poppy was noting. what is the expectation of how the kremlin is going to respond to biden now making this historic trip to kyiv? >> y

well, everyone was warned, but what happened in buch, what happened in the kyiv region.ill don't know what happened in mariupol, and when we find out, it will probably be bitter and painful for us, and to be honest, these are terrible things. that is someone has to somehow be responsible for this and the lives of people who could not evacuate and died only because there was no information about the offensive coming a-a i think that we will get to this now with an external enemy, but you know these questions i yesterday i literally watched a piece of the press conference, i did not comment on anything. but i understand that these questions will arise and someone will have to answer these questions. well, in principle, we must prepare for these questions, because if we really value democracy here, they understand that it is necessary to prepare to difficult questions, er, they will always be in society , yes, er, absolutely true, because, yes, a very large number of people were affected, especially civilians, i er, and in your hotel they said that the 14th episode of the 1

to kyiv. so, president zelenskyy, you deeply honor me here in kyiv. with you today.o meet with your military, your intelligence folks. your diplomatic teams. community leaders who have stepped up and helped their country in the hour of need. it's astounding who stood up. everybody. everybody. women, young children, trying to do something -- just trying to do something. pulling people out of apartments they're being shelled and literally, i think is war crimes. it's astounding. and the whole world, the whole world, sees it. and looks at it. this is the largest land war in europe in three quarters of a century. and you're succeeding. against all and every expectation, except your own. we have every confidence that you're going to continue to prevail. you know, from the moment first received the report in the fall, about a year ago, we were focused on determining how do we rally the rest of the world. how do i help you with the promise you asked me to make to rally the world. well, how do you succeed? how do you get a world to respond? to a prosperous economy, a confide

where did joe biden go after kyiv?dvocates the integration of ukraine into the european union and the european union, organized an action in the center of warsaw to send a message to the president of the united states, here you see pictures on the screen of fighter jets, a request for fighter jets also appeared on the advertising screen in the center of the polish capital, look here i will add that the other day american the politico publication wrote that five members of the us house of representatives, both republicans and democrats, are allegedly pressuring president biden to send f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. well, what is happening right now in in warsaw, where are they actually waiting or have they already waited for joe biden, well, let's talk about it now, the head of the voice of america in eastern europe myroslava avangadze joins our broadcast myroslava my greetings so tell me , am i surprised in warsaw by biden's visit to kyiv , or as if they were supposed to be the first, but here first kyiv on the way what

and please tell me if there are other additional similar objects in kyiv, in the kyiv region, and maybe there is, i don't know, feedback from local public activists from other regions of ukraine yes, because there are regularly reports that something was illegally built there, one or another church building was installed there, and so on. there is some kind of communication happening now at such a grassroots level, ah, well, look at it, in fact, it would greatly facilitate this whole story , eh, the adoption of a law, after all, about eh, let’s say , the role of the russian orthodox church and the so -called uoc mp eh, in today’s ukraine, because that the legislation has not yet defined them as a terrorist organization or a prohibited organization, and secondly, well, that is, of the vivid examples, it is easiest to cite the example of the largest temple, which the russian orthodox church continued to build even during martial law and now continues to build near the olimpiyskiy metro station near the olimpiyskiy stadium, they emphasize that this is their one of the central temples, on w

judging by according to the available information , at least three targets were shot down over the kyiv region and several more in the chernihiv region. they also report that there are likely to be others in the air the exact number of objects is unknown, because some of them can move at low altitudes outside the range of radars. also , the alarm continues in the southeast, in particular from zaporizhzhia, unverified information about three explosions has been received so far, but the cause of them has not yet been specified. from the beginning in chernihiv oblast, where two groups of air targets were recorded moving southward , soon the sirens went off in kyiv oblast , poltava oblast, zhytomyr oblast, a little later the red zone on the air alert map spread to south to zaporizhzhia and west to rivne oblast, the alarm continues, do not neglect the safety rules. follow the messages because the situation is changing and stay in shelter. it is not the first time that russians have become more active after suffering a painful slap. radar detection and control of the ak-50, the russians used

forum in kyiv.t was near the gulliver shopping center, where these underage teenagers were supposed to have a fight . well, 140 to 200 people were detained in kyiv and kharkiv during this special operation . what do you know about it as far as it is an important important thing well, i will say that the name of the subculture refers to the popular japanese manga anime called hunter x hunter, which is about the criminal organization of henry dan, it is also called spiders because of the characteristic emblem of this creature worn by teenagers. it's football fans and they arrange these fights there, i didn't know i have a child who is fortunately still small, she's 10 years old and it's happening tik-tok this one won't watch do you know about this special operation what precisely about this subculture or vc ryadan who came from russia how dangerous it is for us now i am asking for destabilization i think we got acquainted with this information the deputy of the sources e-e you are very beautiful do yo

kyiv is such a rebel city and rebel territory. and lviv is guerrilla territory because there were some barricades in kyiv instantly. well, in short, the same thing happened that always happened during the maidan. and the closer you are to western ukraine with the traditions of own-up . mykola, the code is like this. call this phone, don't tell anyone when you look at the checkpoint, call only the official policeman. don't tell anyone this e-e code . tell the policeman this code and they will let you in right away. such an underground option is pure galicia, and then i understood the difference between what kyiv is, what lviv is, what galicia is, and to what extent it is already rooted in human nature , like who is fighting where, these are different wars, but simply based on my experience, galicia has the experience of fighting like this so, we and our guests will be the first to talk on this broadcast: roman kostenko , people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security, defense and intellig

so a presidential visit is a big deal for kyiv. especially kyiv fighting a war. the second point to give you the convection is, you know, the stark contrast with what was happening a year ago, so roughly a year ago the american embassy in kyiv was packing its bags and leaving. everyone was leaving. kyiv was meant to fall in three day, everyone believed that, and now we have the president of the united states standing on the ground in kyiv with the air-raid sirens, and not afraid, and that's important, and it's important, why, because, you know, he's disarmed putin of his most effective weapon, fear, by simply coming here. it's the most welcome visit of the year. >> expand on that. that's interesting you say that, it's disarmed putin of the weapon of fear. what does that mean? >> well, let me give you my personal experience, probably the most frightening attack was the first one, the explosions aren't that scary, you know, the security situation can be managed, but it's the fear of uncertainty that gets you, and once we learned the patterns of the missile attacks,

we have seen plenty of them in kyiv. we have seen countless _ plenty of them in kyiv.ess world leaders arrive in the capital to meet president zelensky to discuss future support and everything else, but you have a us president visit a capital city in the midst— us president visit a capital city in the midst of a full—scale conflict, when _ the midst of a full—scale conflict, when there are not any us soldiers with boots— when there are not any us soldiers with boots on the ground here in ukraine, — with boots on the ground here in ukraine, it — with boots on the ground here in ukraine, it is quite a moment. but you can _ ukraine, it is quite a moment. but you can be — ukraine, it is quite a moment. but you can be sure that president zelensky— you can be sure that president zelensky will use this, as he always does, _ zelensky will use this, as he always does. as— zelensky will use this, as he always does. as an — zelensky will use this, as he always does, as an opportunity to ask for more _ does, as an opportunity to ask for more we — does, as an opportunity to ask for

kyiv says it needs more long range missions. irate kyiv says it needs more long range missions. ~ ~ .w that they have [on . er missions. we know that they have longer range _ missions. we know that they have longer range systems _ missions. we know that they have longer range systems which - missions. we know that they have i longer range systems which ukraine wants which is a range of 300 km, which would be very useful if they wanted to target crimea. military targets and crimea, of course the concern is that if you give them long range weapons, would they hit targets inside russia as well? you do sense the british have said they will be providing long—range weapons ukraine, they haven't said what is in jeopardy clearly there is movement. some countries not willing to explore that, the us is not one of those countries yet committed to providing those longer long—range weapons. but this was more than a chance to announce new military aid, it was also a show of us support days before the anniversary of russia's invasion. here's chief international correspondent lyse doucet. even though

joining us from kyiv is oliver crook, you have made the journey into kyiv.re into the invasion, what is the situation like on the ground? >> that's right, one year ago, dawn is when the city was awoken by explosions and aircraft overhead. now it is hard to believe it was a year ago. i think we forget that the of shock of seeing those military crossing into ukraine. the shock that there is a war beginning in europe. and the shock that kyiv still stands today. on the way down here from warsaw, you take the train through bucha where there was that horrible massacre of civilians and realize how close the russian military was to the seat of government in kyiv, but today a lot of things are more or less normal. just behind me by the golden dawn, zelenskyy is giving out medals to the military, so people are able to move freely to the shock of many people of how this is going to turn out. tom: we know the russians have targeted the infrastructure, particularly the energy infrastructure of ukraine, how has that been holding up? >> this has been referred to as the ene

regional military administration, oleksiy kuleba, announced that the kyiv region had been completelyut the battle for the capital, so what would andriy stasyuk tell more about , their brid krieg was shot down, if he broke through to him what next so that he could go to vyshhorod well, kyiv is already one of the main forces for the occupiers on the first day of the war, the airport in gostomel was here, they sent their landing party here helicopters and also ruled to land planes with heavy equipment for the further assault on kyiv, but the full-fledged display of the russians was prevented by a part of the national guard unit that took up the fight here and somewhere on the 10th , the first helicopters began to come in, that is , first the reconnaissance helicopter came in for the first time and made a flyby, i understand that he e- to find our positions where the defense of the airport was directly located , well, our fighters, insurers. seeing the enemy helicopter, they opened fire on it and shot it down after 10-15 seconds, despite the fact that the main part of our brigade at that

lyse doucet, bbc news, kyiv.day's anniversary are taking place in cities and towns across ukraine, russian state television has been quiet. president putin's invasion has resulted in huge military casualties, with some estimates of tens of thousands of dead. and much of the territory initially gained has since been lost. take a look at this map. a year ago, before the invasion, the only occupied territories in ukraine were luhansk and donetsk in the east, held by russian—backed separatists. russia had already illegally annexed crimea, in 2014. just weeks into the current war, large parts of the south, east, and north of ukraine were under russian military control. but ukraine has fought back, thanks to artillery from europe and america, and seized back much of the north, though russia still occupies large parts of the east. let's get some analysis from our russia editor, steve rosenberg, in moscow. they are not marking this anniversary, it seems, where you are? . �* , anniversary, it seems, where you are? ., �*,

a 20 km long traffic jam was formed on victory avenue in march 2022 the population of kyiv decreased to 800,000 olga and her family - one of those who remained february 24 the girl was planning her dream trip to norway, but instead she was forced to hide in the basement of one's own house . actually , this is our basement. we lived in it from the end of february until mid-april. and the girl could not be afraid, she decided to fight with the enemy on the information front. olya joined the airwaves of foreign channels and told foreign reporters about the realities of the military capital. olya's sister oleksandra despite her young age, too could not stay away, the girl started volunteering and weaving camouflage nets for our defenders and went here . well, here in the district she used to feed nets for us, but it was not enough , and then we went to kyiv, and for the summer , and there i met people and began to take kyiv permanently on a permanent basis . our defenders in april 2022 repelled all attempts by the russians to seize the capital. the number of kyivans opens doors, cafes, r

president to come to kyiv.owever, there's some others really hard line military bloggers who become quite prominent here in russia as the war has gone on who say this is absolutely a defeat for russia. that president biden can just go there without facing any difficulties from the russian federation and they see it as a sort of sign of weakness from president putin, that this was allowed to happen in the first place. but that sort of part of it. but essentially what the russians are also saying is that they believe that the fact that president biden was there in kyiv today shows that the u.s. is very much part of this conflict. some russians saying party to this conflict. it's really one of the narratives, pamela, that the russians have been trying to build over the past couple of months. especially as things have been quite difficult for them on the battlefield. they're saying, look, we're not just fighting against the ukrainians, but we're also fighting against all these western weapons pouring in especially

did the biden administration warn or warn russia that president biden was going to visit kyiv ? the white house warned the kremlin in advance, which clearly indicates washington's responsible behavior if moscow in turn carried out air raids or missile strikes on kyiv while biden was there , she would have suffered a huge blow from the point of view of international public opinion and possibly even inside russia, since there is an international political and legal understanding that countries do not try to kill major powers, despite the fact that russia grossly violated international law by invading ukraine, it tries to manage international relations with the public and , frankly, they do well because outside of europe, the united states, japan, australia in new zealand and other countries, almost two-thirds of the world sympathizes with russia. the kremlin has well understood that it will lose this support if it does something so imprudent as the launch of missiles after they were warned about biden's visit, but on the other hand, putin gave some kind of clear and understandable

[000:00:00;00] yes, i'm in kyiv, that's right, now i'm in kherson, do i have people, do i have a key to the house, i live because my house is still there, that's our strength here, we don't need any kind of things, they shot us with machine guns and no one, that's all what the russians did , they only cried, they rallied people they made them stronger, and it was me. well, i was so impressed with kherson . i said against the pit there, but i love you . 368 days of heroic resistance of ukrainians to the russian occupiers continues in the weather . news on espresso in the studio of anzhelika sezonenko . two people were killed and seven were taken. injuries russians have attacked kherson oblast 78 times in the past day, peaceful settlements have been attacked by occupiers with mortars, artillery, tanks and drones . this was reported in the regional military administration. kherson itself was fired upon 13 times . and all over the residential quarters of the city, enemy projectiles destroyed houses, and also shot and killed local russian enterprises. they don't stop beating in kharkiv ob

the former minister of foreign affairs of china came to moscow through the streets of kyiv.now the head of the office of the international affairs commission of the central committee of the communist party of china one and, according to the information of the russian and chinese media , during this visit one of the most influential diplomats of the heavenly realm intends to speak about ukraine in particular information that he plans to put on the table of the kremlin leadership the chinese plan to end the war , and even more, wang's visit may indicate that beijing is seriously thinking about it is too late to play an important mediating role in this matter, but let him try, continuing the chinese theme. if the chinese decide to supply and sell weapons to russia, it will become a red line in relations with the european union , the head of european diplomacy, jose borel , said about this after a meeting with the head of the office of the commission on of international affairs of the central committee of the chinese communist party by ivan and on the sidelines of the munich sec

however, kyiv is urging fresh sanctions be implement it quickly. >> back in kyiv for the fourth timea's invasion began, urszula von der leyen wants to demonstrate the eu's steadfast support. >> our presence in kyiv today gives a clear signal -- the whole of the european union is in this with ukraine for the long haul. >> the eu commission president and senior eu officials are meeting their counterparts ahead of friday's eu summit, the first since eu -- the first since ukraine was granted candidate status last year. the bloc has welcomed between 4.5 million to 5 million refugees and allocated if the billion euros in humanitarian, financial, and military aid for kyiv, money that is likely to continue to flow as long as the war drags on. >> russia is concentrating its forces. unfortunately, to overcome such an enemy, there needs to be more than success on the battlefield. we need hope in europe. free europe, peaceful and united europe. >> eu officials descending on kyiv comes hot on the heels of local authorities cracking down on corruption. it is one of the main hurdles ukraine must ov

but kyiv still stands almost one year into this war.a dramatic show of solidarity to see president biden standing alongside president volodymyr zelenskyy in broad daylight, right at the heart of a democracy, under attack, with a very audible reminder of the extreme danger that exists around them. [sirens] >> the surprise trip, coming on the eve of a speech by putin to his nation, attempting to justify a second year of bloodshed. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> putin's war and conquest is failing. he thought he could outlast us. i don't think he's thinking that right now. >> so, how will the russian leader respond to president biden, only hours from now? we have team coverage coming up. we will go live to fred pleitgen. he is in moscow this hour. kaitlan collins is live in warsaw, where the president just arrived. clarissa ward is live in kyiv. sam kiley is joining us from kharkiv. first, let's go to jim sciutto for more on how this very, very secret trip came together. jim, what are you learning? >> wolf, it's a complicated journey from the u.s. capital to th

kyiv. i was in a little bit of a multitasking bubble, but claire made the important point that we're not in a moment -- we are in a post-unity that an american president on the ground in a country at war against a known american adversary is no longer anything remotely close to a kumbaya moment. despite that, what do you think the broader political impact is of the president's visit today to kyiv? >> well, it really was an extraordinary moment, and it was an extraordinary image when you have the president of the united states with the air raid sirens playing in the back walking through the streets of kyiv, and i apologize which of your previous guests made this point. the contrast between joe biden could not be more striking. you think about that joe biden -- or that donald trump's presidency was defined by his relationship with vladimir putin. joe biden's presidency is increasingly defined by his relationship with volodymyr zelenskyy, and you see this side by side. it was a courageous mome

when he was not afraid when all this was happening, even an air raid signal was issued in kyiv. all a very serious demon for ukraine and ukrainians, and ah, in this world and in russia, the course of support for ukraine remains unchanged. i think that er, it helped us a lot and it gives us confidence that ukraine will really win, ukraine will win militarily, ukraine will win with the help of allies, also if we talk about er, your personal experience yesterday, did you manage to see any of the bidens up close there to hold his hand, well, wave to him no, i didn’t see him, but you know, i already got through the traffic to my office. i was just sitting in the news and waiting for various confirmations. who is he, where will he be , what will he say? it's an incredible event, it's really a very strong signal to putin and the ukrainians, of course, everyone didn't expect it, even because it was and there was information that it could be george's melody , because they also expect the premiere of italy in kyiv, but it turned out that it's joe biden himself at some point we've already

by the way, they asked me about the 5th channel who will come to kyiv? what do you think? i say for sure an american politician and his last name will start with the letter eh or biden or blinken. well, i was leaning towards the fact that it will be blinky, considering this step eh how would you predict how it will affect in general to the world first of all, for the russian-ukrainian war, because the presence of biden in kyiv is a sign not only for putin, but also for the leader of china , who is going to visit putin in the spring of this year, by the way, today , february 20 the minister of foreign affairs of china flew to moscow. china is obviously concerned with the preparations for the visit of the president to putin. paradoxically, it is china that is most interested in the continuation of the war in russia. the resource is becoming less and less, and this problem is not only of a military nature, it is purely economic. sanctions on russia are killing and in the second half of this year, i do not think that the russian economy will survive and that apart from toilets

>> yes, it is nice to see you, especially in kyiv. appreciate that, and i think everybody appreciates your being there. i'm gonna start with saying that today, we saw bravery of two presidents, of the president of the united states, and of ukraine. and what we will see in the future, in the nearest future, is a brazen approach by putin who would bet on his nuclear threats and his abilities so far to bombard ukraine from the center because ukrainians don't have long range missiles to answer. so that is very, very unfair situation. but hopefully, it would be corrected. so, that is key today, they sounded rather optimistic. the losses on the russian side are absurd. but putin does not -- does not care about human life, you know, that is the fundamental difference between america and russia, between ukraine today and russia. the dictatorship, he can spend as much, you know, so-called -- as much as possible, and that might count two extra, believe it or not. >> let us talk about what russia does next. in an interview with sky news, the pre

and he ended up in kyiv today.y journalists woke up with these shots of the american president in the ukrainian capital that you see on your screens. that was a surprise for journalists, in particular , even for me. american colleagues of many here here in warsaw clearly indicates that this part of the security measures was successful , the fact that your ringtone alerted moscow to at least a few hours actually before the event about the stay of the american leader in ukraine , and there are many questions about this, but on the one hand, it is about removing the threat of a sudden confrontation there, again , the issue of security, on the other hand , it is probably also about some minimum diplomatic rules, the rules for which actually now the civilized world is competing in your country to return to a world in which rules apply , not force . jake sullivan, who explained why, despite the security risks, joe biden still decided to fly to kyiv today, please, president biden understood that it was important to make t

these were captured in the battle of kyiv.thering place for a lot of ukrainians. it's sunday night. now all weekend, all day, people come here, they look at these tanks, they take pictures on them, they actually climb on them. you've probably seen it in the background of some of my shots. there are zahl sorts of tanks here, various types of armored vehicles, personnel carriers, and battle tanks. these are a symbol of the fact that while this country is still at war, there were parts of this particular city that were both hit by missiles and where russian troops actually invaded eight miles from where i stand they'd almost take in the city of kyiv. they sort of occupied the suburbs of the city, european hostomel in bucha on february 27th. the war started on february 20. fourth by february 27th and taken some of these places. they were not liberated until the end of, march beginning of april. that's when they realize the atrocity. these tanks stand here as symbols of what the ukrainian defense was able to do. what civil defense

how not to love you, my kyiv, from the beginning of the full-scale wars and kyiv has changed, it is bright and noisy, it has turned into a city with military needs, the capital has survived the onslaught of shelling, a series of blackouts and how our kyiv has changed, further in the story kyiv is under martial law and the opposing headquarters of the capital decided as soon as possible in connection with military aggression, the morning of february 24 began due to the siren of long queues and panic, citizens left the ukrainian capital on pemeghu avenue , a 20 km long traffic jam was formed in march 2022, the population of kyiv decreased to 800,000 olga and her family - one of those who remained on february 24, the girl was planning a dream trip to norway, but instead she was forced to hide in the basement of her own house. actually, this is our basement in which we lived from the end of february until the middle of april. the work at this table was made simply from improvised materials . everything remained as it was before . the girl could not sit and be afraid. she decided to fight the e

biden to kyiv. we understand the go ahead went on as late as friday in the oval office he took the train from the east of poland through western ukraine to kyiv and stayed five hours. in terms of what the president will say today, he will be on the podium behind me where you see the final preparations made in this secure area in the royal castle here in warsaw. president biden, obviously, will take up the baton thrown to him by president putin and take on the important issue of is this russia versus ukraine or russia versus the west. if mr. putin wants to make it about russia versus the west, i'm sure mr. biden will say the west is in this for the long term the initial strategy of the russians was to have a lightning war against the ukrainians and displace the government in kyiv and make it what had been in 2014 which was a russian satellite. that did not prove correct now it is a war of attrition now we have seen this frozen conflict in donbas and the annexation of crimea from 2014, not in the late

how kyiv has changed, see further in our story, the ruins of kyiv. in the conditions of martial law, and the opposing headquarters of the capital was quickly adopted in connection with military aggression, the morning of february 24 began with a siren, long queues and panic, the citizens left the ukrainian capital a 20 km long traffic jam was formed on victory avenue in march 2022 the population of kyiv decreased to 800,000 olga and her family - one of those who remained february 24 the girl was planning her dream trip to norway and instead, she was forced to hide in the basement of her own house . we lived from the end of february until the middle of april . was able, decided to fight the enemy on the information front. olya joined the airwaves of foreign channels and told foreign reporters about the realities of the military capital. olya's sister oleksandra , despite her young age, could not be aloof either, the girl began volunteering and to weave camouflage nets for our defenders and went here. well, here in the area, nets were posted on us, but

boryspil is north of kyiv.are moving in the other direction , this is the zhytomyr highway. just a year ago , traffic jams in kyiv began to form on it. tried to leave the capital, those fleeing from the enemy from populated areas where the russians had already entered , but this route for many became the last route, the route of death. that is how the road in the western direction was called because of the atrocities of the russians from the capital and will tell about it my colleague oleksandr zavgorodny, who also has personal memories of those first days of the great war , none of us could have even thought that the belarusians would betray us and russia would manage to cut this road and they would attack our capital from the west. in fact, we arrived at the place where the great battle for kyiv began , it was at this place that the russian troops were drawn up in parade columns to kyiv 45 km before the evening. it turns out that the ukrainians have aviation and drones, and the famous baryakhtars may have wor

well , they are discussing the statements that were made in ukraine, colleagues kyiv.hank 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 w

this is simply a weak response to biden's visit to kyiv. considered that this is sensitive information for the americans. well , the americans will, so to speak, put a little bird and then a cross. not putin after that, well, actually , no. there are unexpected things, as nekrasov wrote , a man who would come to his head in the dark. that russia has not been studied by ukrainians and the world, and even more so russia, which is now in its uh , as they say, continuous ten, it is well, in your long time, what it is like now, it is very, very mysterious, so we will see how it all can happen in any - in any case, my people must do their own thing, and it seems to me that the death of the gods , how come the death of the gods , because the death of the empire in russia is already quite close. the expert was with us thank you, mr. maksym and volodymyr tsybulko, political expert, people's deputy of ukraine of the fourth convocation, poet, public figure, we have a few minutes left, i want to urge you once again to read literature, again, i do not a

we're live in the capital, kyiv. explosion. on the eastern front — we have a special report on the battle for one strategic town. the front line is about 500 metres away. they say russian troops are trying to advance, but they are holding them back. ukraine's president zelensky honours the country's war heroes and is adamant victory will come. translation: if our partners respect all their promises - and deadlines then victory will inevitably await us. if we can all do our homework, we can all win. and the other main stories on tonight's programme... junior doctors in england announce three consecutive days of strikes in march over pay — it will affect both routine and emergency care. and a third candidate slips in before the deadline to run to succeed nicola sturgeon as snp leader and first minister. on bbc london, a year after the war in ukraine began, and coming up on the bbc news channel: a semifinal shock as england lose to south africa at the women's t20 world cup and the hosts go through to play australia on sunday. good

well, i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. when russia invaded it wasn't just ukraine being tested, the whole world faced a test for the ages. europe was being tested. america was being tested. nato was being tested. all democracies are being tested. the questions we faced were simple as they were profound. would we be strong if we looked the other, would we be weak? all of our allies would be united or divided? one year later we know the answer. we did respond, we would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way. >> president biden also made it clear that this war in ukraine was also nato's war, that the stakes for the west remain incredibly high. >> over the past year the united states has come together with our allies and partners in an extraordinary coalition to stand against russian aggression, but the work in front of us is not just what we're against but what we're for. what kind of world do we want to build? >> just hours before president biden spoke the

okay, we're going back to kyiv on monday. on monday, several patients are already calling me.y say we'll be there tomorrow. i'm saying how . tomorrow we'll be there tomorrow. she'll meet you at the station in life . we'll meet you at the station. we arrived and immediately took them to the hospital. unfortunately, we are now in the third maternity hospital is not able to work. because during the war , most of the doctors of the third maternity hospital were dismissed in kyiv, so the doctors work in other hospitals that provided the conditions and free of charge. conditions that were due to negligence , which could have been prevented or could have been diagnosed or cured if it had been six months ago, sergey, well, on the other hand, it is very good that you have met just such people who still take care of their health because you invited them to kyiv for treatment and they immediately agreed because , for example, ms. oksana and i talked about the fact that there are cases when it is very difficult to persuade people to we also came for some kind of additional examination or

kyiv was the general's report naive. the general reported that the situation is completely under control as in all on the northern border, there was a report by the minister of internal affairs on the formation of new brigades of the offensive guard, there are very, very good results . so, this was the report of zelensky and the story about the meeting of the supreme commander-in-chief volodymyr on the eve of february 24, according to ukrainian intelligence officers, military intelligence officers, the enemy is gathering a very large air force , 400 planes, 300 helicopters, although the same yuriy ignat, the spokesman for the air force of ukraine , says that this is approximately the same air force that was a year ago the day before there is nothing to be afraid of a big russian offensive on ukraine, in your opinion. what can happen on february 24 , or let's say in these days, because i emphasize once again that the russian propaganda machine is spreading rumors that russia can do something incredible considering the air

, mykhailo shaman, the new spokesman for the kyiv city military administration, mr. mykhailo. good morning, yes, we have something to do with the connection . this is probably the result of the power cut, because we know that the energy companies are preventively turning off the electricity . in order for the russians not to damage our energy infrastructure, which they hunt with their missiles, in the meantime, tell me how we are going to move, we will try to talk about the fact that the fragments of the rocket have already fallen in kyiv they damaged the house and the car, the mayor of the capital, vitaliy klitschko, announced this on the telegram channel. we will actually try to restore the connection . let's see how it is and find out that there is also an air defense e-e in lviv oblast. the word all over ukraine well, for now, i propose to start a conversation here with our guest, and there already if mykhailo joins us, then we will already say hello to mrs. olga, well, the reason is not a massive missile attack, but in the end it has an impact and on that uh, wi