dc signed easter 2024, that is, even 900 km from home, we do not miss family rituals, wrote oksana markarovao you see, both in zaporizhzhia, and in washington, and somewhere in transcarpathia, everywhere all this unites us, the only thing is that i am a little too ordinary it is upsetting that a huge number of churches remain, at least nominally, by churches i mean exactly the churches connected with moscow, connected with lubyanka in some way, connected with the kremlin, because of this unity with the moscow patriarch, and on the occupied territories, we remember that there are priests who had pro-ukrai. the position of the occupiers, maybe, maybe we need to go ahead here, maybe we need to get ahead of even other orthodox churches, and go completely to the gregorian calendar so that we can emphasize our separation and so that people know that they are still a month ago, they celebrated easter and everything, the civilized world, apologizing, well, the world in africa is different, not all countries are terribly civilized, but they can be cathartic. the same is latin america, rather, the wes

oksana markarova will join us with the latest. >>> finally, robert gates once led the cia and the defensehoughts on the state of u.s. national security and the 2024 election and more. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >>> good morning and welcome to "face the nation." with election day less than six months away, president biden is navigating a host of challenges at home and abroad. his national security adviser is in israel today for talks with embattled prime minister netanyahu as the war in gaza enters the 8th month. netanyahu is facing a ultimatum from benny gans who is threaten to quit government unless a post car plan is delivered by june 8th. this week the defense minister questions netanyahu's strategy and that conflict over seas is making waves at home. voters dissatisfaction with president biden's hanling the war with gaza is overshadowing his commencement address in morehouse in atlanta this morning where some have protested his appearance. the speech is just one of the stops this weekend aimed at shoring up support from black voters. recent polling suggests he's fall

ukraine's ambassador to the united states, oksana markarova, says that ukraine is waging a defensiveuld have the right hit the weapons of partners in those places. what did she say in an interview with cbs news? let's listen. we have been having this discussion for two years now, we have the right to defend ourselves, and we defend ourselves regardless of whether we strike russian troops on our territory or russian troops outside our territory, so un rules, international law and all the other rules , which exist in this country and which, by the way, russia has violated, give us a clear right to defend. striking at the aggressor, whether on our territory or where he starts his attacks? and the head of the foreign affairs committee of the french parliament, jean-louis bourlange called on paris to lift the taboo on ukraine sending french weapons to russian territory, quoting mr. bourlange: for france, which has long expressed its desire to be at the forefront of solidarity with ukraine and inter-allied coordination. it seems that the time has come to lift the prohibition which it has h