zelenskyy: on behalf of ukraine, thank you so much. thank you for the question.hank you for your condolences. i think that the war does not look good. and has not been good since the beginning and clearly, wintertime it slows down. everyone gets tired. it is nature. the people, and thank god, the enemy as well. it looks as follows. the east of our country standing strongly. the living, the ones that have been unfortunately lost for their bravery. it is very important to know that we are strong and will overcome. we are a strong, fighting nation. we have united and we are modernized. we are motivated. we did not start the war but we will and it. the other parts of most -- the other parts of our nation, the south and north, the process has slowed down a little bit. but it is not just about us being united. we need to have the whole world united. because of that we truly need continued support of ukraine. we need supplies as necessary, a a mission that requires getting the enemy evicted from the battlefield. i would like to thank all of the nations for their support

to president zelenskyy, please tell him we really appreciated it. [applause] >> president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy addressed the world economic forum via video feed. he urged allied nations to speed up the pace of their support amid the ongoing russian invasion and called for a moment of silence to honor the victims of the helicopter crash that killed several people including ukraine's ministry of the interior. this is about 20 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for joining us for this very special session at the world economic forum. we have had many extraordinary conversations but i think this one is going to be truly special. we have the address by a world leader and then a panel with world leaders to discuss what is really the central issue in the world today which is russia's war on ukraine and the west response and the world's response and where that will go. to start us off as we sometimes say people who need no introduction. i think that this might be the definition of such a person but i think there's another definitio

we saw president zelenskyy, i think it's right to honor madame zelenskyy -- zelenska who is with us. and the president duda said many important things. and one was that we need to listen to the ukrainians. and you've said too, we need to get out of a mindset that i think a lot of us had when the soviet union first collapsed like you where the smart guy and they weren't such smart guys. i probably -- i apologize to the latvians for this attitude. there is a lot to be learned from what ukraine is doing right now. that is ultimately the reason that i think we should have a lot of confidence. i think ukraine is showing us again the true strength of democracy. that in times it is easy, we do not think about that much. and i think what we see and ukraine, people who are free, people who understand what they are fighting for. and, i think very critically, people who have social solidarity. it is so important that president zelenskyy is there. that you have millionaires, multimillionaires and their sons and daughters in ukraine and on the front lines. this is a fight of the full country. tha

well , yes, zelenskyi was indeed led to resignations . and were his comments after they had already been announced by you? you know. today i was at a press conference in the president's office after the meeting between the president of ukraine and the president of finland. but at this event, at this conversation with journalists, there is no place, time, or space for questions about these resignations. president zelenskyi's agenda consisted of an announcement about the help of western partners for ukraine and a reminder of how important military aid is now, but even if it seems that these two topics are not connected, some analysts in ukraine still connect, in particular , it is said that the western partners of ukraine expect anti-corruption and these resignations and anti-corruption investigations that we are talking about have already reacted in the european union, there in the european commission they approved the nabu investigation into anti-corruption thank you for the video well, a week begins i hope or i think that you and i will

zelenskyi’s popularity is at its peak, and here is a sharp turn of the plot. am running for president of ukraine in 2019. the comedian enters the election race and immediately breaks into the leaders. the argument is that he is a clown . and does not have political experience does not make an impression on the voters how do you feel very sad next convincingly victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections for the first time almost all the power in the country finds itself in in the hands of one political force the first years of zelenskyi's real presidency, chaotic attempts at reforms are intertwined with numerous scandals surrounding members of the presidential team, the situation is complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, it is becoming the first global challenge for zelenskyi, i wish you 36.6 let's take care of ourselves february 24, 2022, the first missiles hit ukraine, and russian convoys go to kyiv american intelligence gives the ukrainian capital 72 hours and warns zelensky that he is the number one target for the russian army president biden

zelenskyy: no, i am not worried about that. i do not have anything to adhere -- to add here. >> you said once that you do not need a ride, you need ammunition, right? pres. zelenskyy: nothing has changed. >> we seem to have lost signal for this live event. we hope to resume our life coverage shortly -- live coverage shortly. unfortunately, we are still having technical issues and not able to resolve this problem with our live feed from this event. we hope to have this for you in its entirety later in our program schedule. here's what is coming up later today at c-span. at noon eastern, we take you to annapolis for the swearing in ceremony of verlander governor-elect moore and lieutenant governor. wes moore becomes the first black governor of maryland. at 3:45 p.m. eastern, the mayors of buffalo, and st. louis discuss ways to stop gun violence. the meeting is taking place in washington, you can watch these events live on c-span and also on c-span now, our free mobile video app, and work -- or online at c-span.org. fridays at eig

. 2005, the star of the 95th quarter of the media empire created by zelenskyi from the production oftainment content after the orange revolution, the country is sharply politicized and the quarter catches the wave parodying and sometimes bringing it to the point of absurdity ukrainian political life is already crazy can you become president and not steal rhetorical question 2015 the first show of the series servant of the people on ukrainian television zelenskyy plays history teachers vasyl holoborodek who wins the presidential election and challenges the corrupt system, the ratings of the series are skyrocketing, zelenskyi's popularity is at its peak and here a sharp turn of the plot i am running for president of ukraine in 2019 a comedian enters the election race and immediately breaks into the leaders argument he is a clown and has no political experience does not make an impression on the voters how proud of you next convincing victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections for the first time almost all the power in the country is in the hands of one political force. the

these include a key aid to president volodymyr zelenskyy.here were other ministers on board and it is reported a child. the crash point was in residential suburb of kyiv your apartment and a preschool. the helicopter coming down onto the grounds of the nursery. the helicopter went down in fog in the district of brother re-in the eastern outskirts of the capital. the crash remains tonight unexplained. volodymyr zelenskyy this wednesday addressed the world economic forum via video link. delegates stood and respected amid silence -- a minute of silence led by president zelenskyy in respect for those killed in the crash. peter o'brien has more. >> a helicopter allies scattered across the street to the east of kyiv. a crash -- it crashed down near a nursery killing the ukrainian interior ministries leadership. one teenage witness recounted how he looked after three chdren who got hurt. >> we gave them suites to calm them down. wrote down their nes. we asked them what hurt. they were not in pain. they just had scratches and bruises. we found their

i think that on behalf of president zelenskyi, i will also try to say thank you. for these wishes, we are all for this, in fact, and uh. we really thank president zelenskyi for his, uh, for his optimism, the ability to communicate correctly with the whole world thank you, roman vashchuk was with us a business boatman and an extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of canada or ukraine in 14-19 years, and we are on this for the fourth hour of our ethereum on this hand, this is a very fourth person. well, if you think about 11, by the way we have a little bit of each the red color is falling from the map of ukraine, fortunately, as spots like a leopard have been sprinkled and we hope that now the entire map of the country will become the same white color, and this means that we will be able to come out of our hiding places, meanwhile, there was news that zelenskyi is considering a ban on the sale of alcohol and fuel for cash, so andrii yes yes i'll give it, i really don't know what this is supposed to mean well, but it will be interesting how the ukrainians will tak

it is so important that president zelenskyy is there. that you have millionaires, multimillionaires and their sons and daughters in ukraine and on the front line. this is a fight of the full country. that is the first reason i am confident. the second reason i am confident, is president duda quite clearly pointed out that this is a fight ultimately about values. it is. but i think that we in the west also need to understand that the victory that president zelenskyy spoke about, and the time which he said we need to use. it is not about doing ukraine favors. it is about supplying ukraine with weapons, and as president zelenskyy very crucially pointed out, supplying ukraine with the money in needs to win the war is ultimately in our own self-interest. so, i am a finance minister. if you were to say to me, what is the one thing that g7 finance ministers, g7 governments this year could do that is actually in our power. we do not control obit. we do not control covid. one thing we -- we do not control global supply chains. one place where we

zelenskyi, the supreme commander of the army, what is the act of brown and boris akunin, journalistsoticed the essay, the history of the ukrainian people by mykhailo hrushevskyi and the monograph hitler and stalin, tyrants and the second world war in english by the historian laurentsaris, ukrainians, powerful ukrainians , brave ukrainians on a unique land and never owned by anyone will not give away the 45th anniversary zelensky celebrates at the peak of his popularity now not only in ukraine but also in the world, he is given a standing ovation by the parliaments of the world and time magazine called him the person of the year as the personification of the ukrainian spirit, this is no longer a movie zelenskyi made his choice no viewers throughout the territory separately began an air alert espresso team goes into shelter calls you to do the same of course read more about important things on our website espresso tv subscribe to our channels in social networks and in a few moments i will tell you one more piece of information and i will also go to the shelter, and then on our broadcas

this was stated by volodymyr zelenskyy the day before. well, will this procedure work in practice?nterfax-ukraine oleksandr martynenko oleksandr good evening oleksandr but if we talk specifically about personnel changes in the office of the prosecutor general e-e please tell me here i am, look i personally expected that andriy kostin will come out and not just say that symonenko resigned of his own free will, but somehow society will demonstrate its readiness to investigate this leave of the deputy prosecutor general, and it seems that this is simply a dismissal of his own free will. an attempt to steal millions of hryvnias does not appear to be an attempt to steal millions of hryvnias, this is simply complete irresponsibility and a lack of understanding of how a civil servant should behave during a war. by the way, i do not quite understand how he went abroad at all. well, as i understand it, after all, he is of draft age and he is exactly as old as i am. i don’t know. i’m just looking at the photo now and he is less than 60. the very question is how he went abroad. and by the way

note that not only different blood said about this, but also the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and before this he said accordingly kuleba , the minister of foreign affairs , he just announced that the next rammstein will be like this on an airplane, so to speak . the issue of aircraft has already been strategically and pre-agreed and we will receive aircraft because the key e here is the need for aircraft is precisely to ensure the complexity of air defense systems when we have already received all the necessary systems in perfect condition medium- and long-range combat and the most modern system in the world is the patriot system from our key partners, we have only one element left to complete the comprehensive closure of the sky over ukraine, this is, of course, the supply of aircraft , just in order for a coordinated single anti-aircraft system to work of the defense of our country. and before that, do you remember that the united states declared the need to create such a system about 2 months ago, but just now there is an opportunity to supply aircraft. i think that they wi

i didn't vote for volodymyr zelenskyi either., but now we have one president, one commander-in-chief, one commander-in -chief, one general, one prime minister, one head of the verkhovna rada, there are no others, and we won't change them now, that's why let's support, criticize, you can, uh, you can write comments. well, you can talk about and insult people who represent the state today, and we are all in the same boat, you know when they say and the president there from ryba just wanted to run away like yanukovych, he is with us. we are all here in we will fight to win in ukraine. love each other, but support each other and you will be stress free. goodbye. congratulations, i am asking for your help in the search and i really hope that thanks to your care, i will be able to find this guy, his name is aurelia hontsa in this photo he is with his mother, here they are happy and smiling , the family lived in the city of voznesensk, mykolaiv region. and when this photo was taken, the boy was still studying at school, talking and walk

zelenskyi received a higher education, but he worked by profession only two months during the universityice, he was much more fascinated by the stage, because he had been playing in the club of funny and smart people since the 11th grade, and zelenskyi turned his low voice, which worried him a lot, into a business card because our young team from kryvyi rih got into the halo concert in 2005, the star of the 95th quarter of the 95th quarter is rising in ukraine, the media empire created by zelensky from the production of entertainment content after the orange revolution, the country is sharply politicized , and the quarter catches the wave, parodying and sometimes bringing to absurdity the already crazy ukrainian political life is it possible to become the president and not steal a rhetorical question 2015, the first showing of the series servant of the people on ukrainian television zelenskyi plays the history teacher vasyl holoborodek who wins the presidential elections and challenges the corrupt system ratings of the series the soaring popularity of zelensky at its peak and here is a s

the cia director briefing zelenskyy on this.xtraordinary moment in this war. >> reporter: it is. there's definitely a sense, i would say we're at an inflection point. there were a lot of major ukrainian counter offenses towards the end of last year. now we're seeing things settle into what avril haines called not a stalemate but a grinding conflict. so there is a sense of urgency that ukraine needs to step in and fill the vacuum before russia has an opportunity to regroup because while they are running out of ammunition they are trying to gear up their military, industrial complex and get off the ground and running. so the moment is really now and the next few months. now, of course, it's winter time but as you get into spring, after the rains and there really are more opportunities for ukraine to launch further counter offensives and take back more territory, they need to have, in the words of their own leaders and many who support them. they need to have the weaponry and the defensive capabilities to do that. what the frustrat

i think that it should first of all be the political will of president zelenskyi and i am convinced that in the conditions of war, as the supreme commander, president zelenskyi is obliged to show this political will and we should see it in the list of issues on the agenda this is a question. i am convinced that the vote for it will be definitely positive. well, friends, let's move slowly to a pleasant date. today is the anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between ukraine and the united states. 30 years since it happened on january 3, 1992, a few months after the declaration of our country's independence, since then ukraine has always felt american support and over time it has only gotten stronger, but now you know it has acquired a certain material dimension that is very tangible on the battlefield, and the plot of our colleagues from regarding the history of our diplomatic relations, i ask the fear of the collapse of the ussr and the fear of ukrainian independence from this point, ukrainian-american relations began in august 1991 during a visit to kyiv, then in the

, we will now listen to president volodymyr zelenskyi and then let's see how a child in ukraine, listening to the president, reacted to his words with 1 let's listen to the supreme commander-in-chief , the return of what was stolen from us, the childhood of our children, a peaceful old age to our parents , so that the grandchildren can come to their grandparents on vacation watermelons in kherson for cherries in melitopol so that our cities are free our friends are faithful and so that in the reports near the number one hundred thousand destroyed enemies thousands of units destroyed by russian equipment appeared our main number and main success 600 3 000 628 km² ukraine's independence square as it was since 1991 well, now we will discuss the actual president has defined what ukraine wants now let's just look at it as usual child and by the way there are many such videos on the internet when children as children react to the words of volodymyr zelenskyy let's just look and understand the condition of the children and you know this is a reflection in principle of the state of the whole socie

also coming up tonight, president zelenskyy firing several senior officials accused of corruption.ith the war entering a critical phase, we will look into whether they could undermine support for president zelenskyy at home and abroad. and this year's oscar nods are out. which films have a chance at bagging the biggest prize in show business. and lives ended by the holocaust -- a german holocaust museum displays 16 reminders of jewish life in nazi germany. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. to our viewers watching in the united states and all of you around the world, welcome. we begin with a possible decision to send german-made battle tanks to ukraine. german media are reporting that chancellor olaf scholz has given the green light for european countries owning leopard 2 tanks to send those tanks to ukraine. this comes after he talks amongst western allies -- heated talks amongst western allies over germany dragging its feet. the u.s. is also planning to send combat tanks to ukraine. we want to go to our correspondent, benjamin alvarez gruber. according to these reports in germany, it looks

, let's see what zelenskyy said.s a principled decision of the national security council regarding the departure of officials abroad. this applies to all officials of the central government at various other levels of local government . outside the scope of the civil service, officials will no longer be able to go abroad for vacation for some other non-state purpose, the five-day period of the cabinet of ministers must develop such a procedure for officials to cross the border so that the basis could only be a real business trip well , information appeared that the cabinet of ministers agreed to the dismissal of five heads of the kyiv dnipropetrovsk, zaporizhzhia, sumy, and kherson regional military administrations oleksiy kuleba, who headed the kyiv regional military administration will replace kirill tymoshenko in the office of the president of ukraine, valery, again, i have a question for you, not as a diplomat, but as a politician, these personnel changes and in general er, the entire bureaucratic structure that e

now you're going to have zelenskyy himself. his message, i'm pretty certain, once he's dealt with the awfulness of today's events will be this -- that helicopters -- yes, help copper crashes, but that helicopters was only in the air on this mission because of the war. those people would be alive now if it wasn't to the war. i've already heard from the german chancellor who says we'll do whatever they want, we'll send what they need, but at the same time he's refusing to send the german leopard 2 tanks the polish prime minister says we will send them, and we want france and germany to send them, to. what you're looking at, kate is a complex situation. this helicopters in a way is a touchstone that allows zelenskyy to say to these people put your money where your mouth is. don't keep telling me you support me. you sent me a lot, it's not enough. >> richard, thank you so much for putting the focus for us on it. >>> we'll be standing by to hear from zelenskyy himself. in the meantime while we're waiting for zelenskyy to get up and

so where, where else can there will be a meeting between zelenskyi and putin.will go to nato after he is actually being made, officially, he will remove his immunity against him and he can be prosecuted in the international court of justice as a terrorist and a criminal, and i think he will not be able to leave. in the nearest time from russia well, it’s not that uh, these are the closest countries to which he thinks that these are his satellites there, belarus, uh , armenia, and in germany, it’s already a problem even for some russian uh, military stays, all these moments uh- they once again confirm that putin is going in a completely paradoxical way, destroying any bridges. well, what kind of negotiations can there be if they really seized part of our lands from us , which we should give to kherson zaporizhzhia because they introduced their constitution or they were to change the constitution and pass for borders e-e territory parts of the kherson region, parts of the e-e part of the e-e zaporizhzhia and donetsk regions of the luhansk region, in no region the

wait, let 's start the issue with the arrival of president volodymyr zelenskyi in lviv with we are in touch with my colleague, our correspondent khrystyna parubiy. she will tell more. so , congratulations to khrystyna. tell me what you managed to find out about the unannounced visit of the president congratulations to ulyana of ukraine. congratulations to all the viewers of the espresso tv channel . the meeting between volodymyr zelenskyi , the president of ukraine and the president of poland, because i am duda, and the president of lithuania, he and the president of lithuania, in novosade, as a result of the meeting, it became known that the declaration of the lublin triangle was signed, and as a result of the visit, it became known that that poland and lithuania expressed unquestionable support and readiness for ukraine, they said readiness to provide ukraine with weapons, in particular, the president of poland said that poland is ready to provide ukraine with leopard tanks but for that you need the agreement of all nato members about what they are currently working on, it is also k

president zelenskyy asked specifically for tanks. did he deliver on what zelenskyy was asking for?en: no, he did not. somebody in the audience asked why hesitate? why wait? and it is germany's partners are also putting the pressure on olaf scholz, the lithuanian and polish presidents in talks. yesterday at polish house, where i was, were desperate to get their message through to germany that these heavy tanks are strategic right now to winning this war and perhaps ending the war and bringing about peace. due to the polish president -- the polish president said it is very needed, this decision. his lithuanian counterpart said it is a strategic factor in this war. we are seeing weapons coming from all parts of the world, but it is these tanks that are so strategic. germany is not allowed to produce them to be stored or stockpiled, according to law, so it is left with this conundrum that it has to call on its partners that it has to supply the tanks it has made, and they are said to be the best the west has to offer. he also does not want the tanks falling into the wrong hands. they d

for example, i spoke with the author of the book, the phenomenon of zelenskyi, olga onukh, she sang, the author, a political scientist, an employee of the university of manchester. all of her opinions are, first of all, that he understands his audience, whether she is in ukraine, or she is from poland, or is it our students in england, anyway, they didn’t talk to our students because of the z hacking. these are now latin americans and he knows how to say what it is necessary for them to understand not only him but also the prospects of ukraine and this is a very important thing that he knows how to speak very openly and in such a way that he will understand his audience bohdan but at the same time we also we also see criticism of the ukrainian president, and among some people, what does it refer to? well, i 'm sure you know, for example, about a very famous critic in the united states, a critic of ukraine, a critic of the ukrainian government. on the american television network fox news, he is very actively and sharply criticizing president zelensky. also, here on this side of the oc

and yes, in fact, the plans of the ukrainian authorities are quite ambitious even president zelenskyylicly spoke about the fact that there is such a desire to hold a summit in the fields of the un. resolved issue. she said that many formats are currently being discussed, this is the holding of the summit, this is also the holding of debates in the security council and the general assembly. if we talk about the meaningful fulfillment of something ukraine is striving for, then the main goal is the adoption of two resolutions. two priority issues today are the responsibility of the russian federation. let's look again. yes, the rule of law and the fact that the russian federation has been impunity all these years, and we are talking about the fact that in order to, for example, the crime of aggression and attraction of the political leadership of the top leadership of the russian federation to the crime of aggression is an important element of our joint struggle, and for this, an international mechanism for bringing such responsibility to such responsibility must be launched, and therefo

davos is a platform and president zelenskyy will make his very tried and true points. they're all excellent. we know what's coming there. the important meeting is in brussels. these are the defense ministers of all 30 of the nation's in the alliance, plus defense ministers from sweden and finland, nations who will very soon be joining the alliance, are representative as americans, of course, our secretary of defense lloyd austin. so it is a meeting where the strategy is going to be on the table, going to be discussed in depth. when i was supreme ally commander, meetings would focus on afghanistan, the balkans, today it is ukraine, ukraine and ukraine. and that makes sense. finally, lindsey, i think principal to the conversation occurring in brussels will be what kind of weapons and how quickly can we get there so they'll be affected in what is shaping up to be a big spring in this war. that means bradley fighting vehicles from the united states and their equivalents from our european allies, tanks, more surface-to-surface missiles, antiship cruise missiles to touch tha

the night before, president zelenskyi said that the situation in donbas is extremely difficult, but he not say about the situation in soledar, the deputy minister of defense said that the fighting there continues and the russian side has suffered significant losses . soledar is located a few kilometers from bakhmut, the russians have been trying for a long time capture this city. so if the russians succeed in taking soledar, it will give them a base to continue this offensive and try to capture bakhmut. if this happens, it will be the first major victory in many months of humiliating russian failures on the battlefield . communications from lviv serhiy grabskyi greetings, mr. serhiy, of course i will ask you to describe the situation at the front, but i want to start with this news: the russians have changed the commander of the united group again troops in ukraine and instead of surovikin, gerasimov became, in your opinion, what happened, the difficult decisions of surovikin did not bring the desired result, and good evening, and you know , it is interesting information, but for me it

i know that you are also interested in this after mykolaiv volodymyr zelenskyi the frederiksen methodith journalists in odesa at a press conference, the president awarded the prime minister with the order of princess olga of the first degree for support of ukraine and emphasized that denmark became one of the first partner countries that agreed to take over the reconstruction in ukraine, in particular, mykolaiv dachas will help according to the president, during the negotiations , the delegations of both countries discussed all aspects of cooperation, the first question for the essential help reinforced artillery in particular thank you for the fundamental decision on the supply of caesar howitzers and also thank you personally to mrs. prime minister and deputy prime minister and the minister of defense readiness given to join our tank tank coalition we also discussed the possibility of strengthening anti -aircraft and anti-ship defense for the south of our country at a meeting with journalists , volodymyr zelenskyi was asked about a possible new offensive of the russian federation in

you can't afford eggs but zelenskyy and his wife don't have to worriy because we will never stop sending them billion dollars. then he demanded that the biden administration send tanks to the ukraine. not to the border of his state where 7 million people have come in the last year. but tanks for ukraine border. and lindsey graham agrees. lindsey graham got unhinged visiting kyiv over the weekend. >> all 3 of us share the same goal. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> for ukraine to drive the russians out of ukraine to, achieve that goal the ukraine military needs tanks. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> am tired of the [bleep] surrounding who will send tanks and when they will send them --

valery , good day, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes . public accusations by zelenskyi's team of looting, bribery and other illegal actions during the war led to a series of personnel resignations. i have already mentioned the resignation of tymoshenko's deputy minister of defense of the deputy minister of community development of the territory and infrastructure and the deputy prosecutor general of ukraine as the current personnel changes and resignations, and simply put, the purge, the purge of personnel, how will it affect our negotiations and the event, because it is clear that before criticizing the event, because who is not there fulfills its obligations to ukraine, obviously the ukrainian government must also demonstrate that it is intolerant of those who engage in bribery and looting inside the country, how will this affect our positions in negotiations with the west well, in fact, despite the fact that this is apparently not my operation, not a diplomatic direction and a foreign policy, but you are right that there are certain markers and indicators that we need to fulfi

the violation of flight rules, technical malfunction of the helicopter and intentional actions and zelenskyi began an address to the participants of the economic forum in davos with a moment of silence for those who died in brovary this morning in brovary, kyiv region , a helicopter crashed, the tragedy occurred near a kindergarten, according to the information of the president's office, the helicopter was flying on a business trip to one of the hot spots where hostilities are currently ongoing in there were nine people on board, six members of the operative group of the ministry of internal affairs, as well as three crew members among the dead minister of internal affairs of ukraine denys monastyrskyi his first deputy yevhen yenin and state secretary yuriy lubkovich, in general, after carrying out identification at the place of the helicopter crash, found 14 dead, including nine crew members, among the victims is one child injured, 25 people, because during the tragedy, children and employees of the institution and the disaster was first reported by local residents on social networks, later

president volodymyr zelenskyi informed about this in his evening address. there are no changes, heavyhting is currently taking place in luhansk region and donetsk region, the president of ukraine said, bakhmut is holding on despite everything and although most of the city has been destroyed by russian strikes of our the soldiers repel the constant attempts of russian offensives. soledar is holding on, although there is even more destruction there and it is very difficult. there is no such patch of land near these two cities on which the occupier did not give his life for the crazy ideas of the masters of the russian regime. this is one of the bloodiest places on the front . well, on to the event across the ocean from the united states of america, in the headlines of the american press this weekend, the new speaker of the us house of representatives, kevin mccarthy , a conservative republican who replaced her all the vacuum cleaners, won the seat only from the 15th attempts in his first speech voiced the priorities in the new position and it is important for you and me that he did not

taken another step for joint protection from the aggressor, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, thanked denmark, the czech republic, estonia, latvia, latvia, poland, slovakia , great britain, finland and the netherlands for the assistance provided as part of the rammstein format , the head of state also personally thanked the prime minister of canada, justin trudeau , for the military assistance. the diplomatic marathon that lasts from my visa to yours is ringing and the negotiations are daily public and non-public managed to significantly strengthen our artillery fist very heavily and with guns and slings there are good results in armored vehicles added several hundred combat vehicles to our arsenal significant results in rockets for jet systems and for our anti-aircraft guns, one of the largest defense packages announced by the united states. i thank president biden for it, all congressmen, all americans who know that freedom cannot lost in the avdiyiv and zaporizhzhia directions, enemy aviation became more active, this is stated in the evening report of the general staff of

onboard was a member of president zelenskyy's inner circle. video circulating tonight online showing the fiery aftermath. the chopper crashing near the capital. you can see the pockets of fire all through the neighborhood there. ukraine's interior minister, a member of the president's inner circle, again, among the dead tonight. and the debris falling on a kindergarten during morning dropoff for parents. the death toll tonight, at least 14 killed so far. president zelenskyy on the crash this evening. matt gutman reporting from inside ukraine. and the obvious questions now, was this pilot error, mechanical trouble, or was the chopper shot down? >> reporter: tonight, these images of a hellscape outside kyiv circulating online. the fiery wreckage after a government helicopter slammed into a residential building, a kindergarten nearby. ignited jet fuel incinerating this courtyard at the crash site. helicopter parts impaling this car. through the fires and haze of smoke, you can hear the screams of the scared and the injured. at least 14 people kil

meanwhile, the united states of america announced that it would grant ukraine tank abrams zelenskyi from toltenberg are already discussing the possibility of supplying ukraine with long-range missiles and aircraft, meanwhile, the russian army continues to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine, as of the morning of the 26th, russia has already lost 123,860 people in ukraine in the last day alone, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 780 orks of the initially large the russians have already lost in ukraine 3175 tanks 6 334 armored fighting vehicles 2169 artillery systems 452 rocket salvo systems 2220 air defense means 292 aircraft 282 helicopters, 4,986 units of automotive equipment, 18 ships, boats, 749 cruise missiles , 1,908 drones, 195 units of special equipment . during the next hour, our guest evgeny magda , political scientist, director of the institute of world politics, evgeny good day, good health to you and glad to hear you on our air , congratulations to serhiy, glory to ukraine, mutual heroes glory so, yesterday the president of the joint members that ukraine will receive 31

world council of churches and other international organizations in geneva, according to volodymyr zelenskyi , they cite, under the guise of spirituality, they support terror, restrictions were also imposed on the representative of christians of the evangelical faith, the entire list of persons was compiled also taking into account the recommendations of the head of the state service for unity policy and freedom of conscience viktor yelensky, two people were killed by a grenade explosion in khmelnytskyi, as reported by the police, this happened in an apartment in one of the high-rise buildings the law enforcement officers who arrived at the scene found the body of a dead man and a seriously wounded woman. they tried to provide medical aid to her, but the wounds turned out to be fatal . the police found fragments of a grenade, probably rgd-5, and are now determining where the ammunition could have appeared in the apartment. half a billion € of military support for ukraine is allocated the european union made the decision at a meeting of the eu council at the level of foreign ministers, it was

between president trump and president zelenskyy.s your advice to him about trump's desire fetish for putin and irrational distrust of ukraine? >> well, first of all, i do have to stress that we weren't publicly saying it, but by that call, we realized what was going on. the interactions between -- that was enough for us to understand that we were in for a hell of a ride. but, to be honest, let me begin with crimea. because this missing pieces of the puzzle that might not be publicly available just yet. first, all president trump, his view of crimea, i was there in the room when he met zelenskyy in new york. one of the things president trump said to us when we asked about crimea was, wasn't crimea historically russian owned? no it wasn't, it's a peninsula -- that was his view on it. he was very dismissive of questions of, like, really trying to enforce -- obviously, it was difficult for us to deal with that. if you examine, for example, the transcript of the so-called perfect phone call, i mean, president zelenskyy mentions the javel

we heard from president zelenskyy a little while ago. this was after the chancellor made his announcement about german tanks but before president biden spoke. zelenskyy said he was deeply grateful for these tanks being supplied to ukraine. he said the key question is the one that you put to john kirby just now. how soon can these tanks be on the battlefield here in eastern ukraine? kirby told you, it would be many months in the case of the american tanks. i think that shows that this decision to send abrams tanks is as much about diplomacy as it is about the battlefield. because this does clear the way for germany to send its own leopard 2s, other nato allies in europe to send theirs. there are some 2,000 leopards here in europe deployed by militaries here. it is very likely that those will be the first tanks to actually get to the battlefield. ukraine hopes they will get here in time to head off a potential russian offensive, possibly in the coming weeks. >> raf sanchez, thank you so much. stay safe there, of course. general mccaffrey,

indeed, today the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi arrived in lviv with an unannounced visa. we know and from open sources it is actually known that the meeting was about the protection of the state border, in particular about the security of the northwestern regions bordering belarus, why actually we don't know why not the espresso tv channel was invited, but the invitation to this meeting did not come to us, as well as to several other mass media, what do we know? traffic jams did not warn the citizens about this, because if they were mostly in lviv before, these are the international meetings, they were announced, and the lviv residents could somehow plan their routes so as to bypass blocked sections of the road. today , it was impossible to do the same, and here literally the traffic jams have been going on for literally the whole day. at the moment , there is also information about the fact that, from open sources, we know that it is possible that president zelenskyy is meeting with the president of poland, jay duda, but at the moment this is not confirmed information ab

well, at least it is possible that many had different motives. for zelenskyi, well, it won’t be worse at least we’ll laugh. well, you have the right to say that. we wanted easy solutions. we wanted everything to be beautiful. we voted for the last name. of the people yes let half of our people they are now well, they won't admit it if i say you are guilty of that, stop, not guilty, well, indirectly, yes. what you do with us is a legal status of some kind. yes, but you participated in it, you defended it, you mutilated it, and putin came and drowned. what did he think that the majority of the ukrainian people was ready to accept there ? he will agree on a middle ground, but putin thought that in the middle is not even the dnipro, but there is something else there, he will give six regions to the poles, and he will take the rest to his empire , and here are all those who in march 19th came to the elections and said there let's agree on sredinke, well, because of this, we vote, they, uh, well, they brought the war closer, viktor, i still wanted to discuss this topic with you, there is no

zelenskyy said the supply must come before the next russian offensive. it's been almost 11 months since russia invaded ukraine. the battlefield momentum has been with ukraine for months, but russia is spending more money to make advances. zelenskyy's comments come as speculation grows that russia could soon launch more attacks. >>> speaking of which, at least 17 people, including several senior ukrainian officials and at least farr children, were killed today when a helicopter crashed in fog near a kindergarten outside of kyiv. nbc's rave sanchez is at the crash site. >> reporter: today's helicopter crash rocking not just kyiv but the wartime government of ukraine. among the dead, the country's interior minister, one of the most powerful members of president zelenskyy's cabinet, a position roughly equivalent to the u.s. secretary of homeland security. so a major loss to ukraine's government as it deals with this crisis. at least four children also killed. they died as the helicopter came down at around 8:20 a.m. local time, spreading debris over this kin

it hasn't matched up to zelenskyy's wishes and zelenskyy's wishes and zelenskyy's needs .y's needs. and of course it's going to send is going to take weeks and weeks and if not months to train soldiers to use this this type of weaponry. so we're coming up to a year, aren't we? 20, 30, february 24th, february 20. thoughtful thought. that will be a year now when we went into this . when when we went into this. when i say we, i mean the west. i mean uk when we gave started to drip feed the money i think one 2.5 billion. so far. i think if we committed another 2.5 billion. yeah. well the uk has pledged another 2.3 billion to match what they gave in 2022. now think people especially people in the us this this goes for doubly so kind of getting to the stage where they're wanting to see a return on that investment and they're wondering what they get and what they get is perhaps a weakening of the russian army and weakening of perhaps the russian government and putin's popularity in the country . and popularity in the country. and if uk , having pledged 2.3 if the uk, having pledg

zelenskyi is ahead, mr. zelenskyi is ahead, mr. is ahead. yes, a goat to arestovych and behind aristovych brings us a new ugly one from ukraine, as if they are calling a dishonest face, a new one on the kovi of ukrainian heroes that in the morning they steal by the strains for derno fonta, the historical district of ukraine, beautiful , get out of ukraine, the hetman of ukraine, the muscovite is not handsome, thank you. i congratulate you all with with the new year, i believe that we will enter this year as a new door that god opens for us as new opportunities. i am sure that these opportunities will open. to every ukrainian , thank you. on this new year's eve, we wish each other more victories than ever. we appreciate the opportunity to celebrate this holiday with family and friends and we say thank you we say thank you to all our defenders and defenders we are grateful to all ordinary ukrainians who stood up to defend our country with weapons in their hands joined the ranks of the volunteer army conscientiously do their work and