we have heard from zelenskyy a couple times throughout the day, and it's interesting, alicia, zelenskyy from the east of ukraine, russia is his native language and he's been speaking in russian directly to both the russian people and russian soldiers. he said, the man from the kremlin, putin, is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself. basically, taunting vladimir putin and he went on to say to the russian troops, and the longer he can run between his bunkers, the more you will lose, you, who are connected with russia. so, a little bit of psychological warfare, if you will, from president zelenskyy. alicia? >> thank, you brought. monika -- for us at the white house. the white house's top concern at this hour, monica? >> alicia, they're also watching this completely closely, really hour by hour with the president. receiving consistent updates from his national security adviser, jake sullivan, who traveled with him to camp david, that's where the president is expected to be tonight, before he returns to the white house tomorrow. and i can tell you in my co

joining us now igor novikov former advisor to president zelenskyy. what is the conversation ukrainians are having amongst themselves about what we have seen in russia over the past 48 hours? >> we'll obviously any chaos in russia is beneficial and welcoming. but at the same time there's a degree of gloating but we are not mistaken and we haven't forgotten effect that the war hasn't ended because at the moment. odessa you can see it on the screen here but odessa is under attack drones in coming into odessa as we speak. so the war is far from over and any instability in russia is likely to cause putin to escalate this. further >> is there than an opportunity in this moment, you know presents lewinsky has been on the phone with president biden, is there an opportunity, militarily, or diplomatically here for president zelenskyy? how does he maximize this moment? >> well, there are two opportunities. any prolonged case and russia would cause the russian front line to be destabilize. therefore, the counteroffensive, that would provide extra opportunities t

and what we're hearing from president zelenskyy. what's the impact of all of this, what's happening in russia on the ukrainian counteroffensive? nbc's raf sanchez is in kyiv. president bide and enpresident zelenskyy spoke by phone over the weekend. where do things stand over today? >> reporter: over the last hour we learned president zelenskyy made a surprise visit to the east to meet with ukrainian troops taking part in the counteroffensive there. he was taking selfies with ukrainian soldiers, handing out medals. he was wishing happy birthday to one of the troops. and the contrast is so stark between president zelenskyy out and about relatively close to the front line and what keir was just saying about this mystery over president putin's whereabouts. as keir was saying, president putin addressing the nation in that stunning emergency broadcast saturday morning and then this slightly odd message released today with no reference at all to what's happened over the weekend, unclear if that was prerecorded or not. so a lot of this war,

as we reported, president biden and president zelenskyy discussing just that today. last representative joaquin castro of the house foreign affairs committee on the role of congress in the wake of this rebellion. we're going to get a report from moscow on what every day russians are saying. it's a country clouded by propaganda yet as you will, here russians do wonder where they go next. first, the other big stories we are tracking this hour at msnbc. anita? >> thank you, alicia, a moments ago a marine board investigation into the titan sub disaster. this summer so uploaded during a tour of the wreckage of the titanic killing all five people aboard. once complete, the investigation could recommend civil or criminal charges. a new nbc news poll finds support for former president donald trump has gone up since his last and latest indictment. the poll conducted shows 51% of republican primary voters chose trump as their first choice. florida governor ron desantis received a second most support at 22%. a colorful scene today in new york, thousands gathered for the annual

and today he is talking about it with volodymyr zelenskyi. i know that you have visited the de-occupied territories and our wall of memory. i sincerely thank you for such a show of respect . it is important for us and also thank you for your support, we feel the support of the people of the united states. thank you for being here today, and noted that part of the united states and the candidate for the presidency of the united states in the upcoming elections of the united states, maca pence, and the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi continued behind closed doors anastasia dougly dmytro sanin details tv channel inter marathon single news europe will help ukraine as much as necessary , eu leaders assured volodymyr zelenskyy at a meeting in brussels today, instead , in his speech, the ukrainian president outlined what kind of support ukrainians expect and what for kyiv mean security guarantees, the position of ukraine is absolutely clear , any attempt to blackmail europe, any attempt to do something against europe must be perceived equa

the south today. from the flood, one of these evacuation points was visited by the head of state zelenskyiith local residents who are undergoing treatment there, he promised that the authorities in the future, he will help with the reconstruction of everything that was destroyed by the russians as a result of the terrorist attack. in addition, he talked with doctors who, even under shelling, continue to help people . we will certainly help with this well, we are very grateful to you for your great work, you are heroic people , immediately after the visit to zelenskyi kherson , the occupiers fired at the ship square of the city when the actual evacuation of civilians in the ministry of internal affairs continued they reported that eight people were injured earlier, the prosecutor's office reported the death, but the police did not confirm this information. so, mr. volodymyr, we are seeing another terrible terrorist act by the russian federation, and this terrorist act was carried out in front of the whole world and the world has not yet reacted harshly. to what putin is doing in the kherson

but president zelenskyy gets to determine that. ukraine has shown no inclination at all. 17 strikes alone let alone other places in the country. this is not the act of a nation that has any serious design on diplomacy right now. >> could you give us an update on efforts of the united states making and any other prisoners, u.s. prisoners in iran. that have been, the potential subject of, potential prisoner swaps or those efforts coming to fruition or advancing in ways that make you all optimistic? >> all i can tell you is we are working on all of these cases. that's an unsatisfying answer to you, but i hope you can understand why we would not publicly negotiate here and publicly disclose the conversations we are having here. you are right to say there are wrongfully detained americans and we are working on that. each and every case is important. each and everyone is a priority and were doing everything we can. each case is different and need to be handled differently. what we put for is going -- put forward is what to be different i

immediately after the retreat to zelenskyi, kherson , the occupiers shelled the shipyard when the actual evacuation of civilians was ongoing, the ministry of internal affairs reported that eight people had been injured. earlier, the prosecutor's office reported the death, but the police did not confirm this information. so, volodymyr, we are seeing another terrible terrorist act. of the russian federation, and this terrorist attack was carried out in front of the whole world and the world has not yet reacted harshly to what putin is doing in the kherson region. what do you think, why ? considering how the world reacted to russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, and it was only a few months after buchi, the world finally started come to your senses and understand what the occupier is doing. in fact, the scope of this catastrophe is still incomprehensible to the world, and unfortunately, during these days, the ukrainian e-e media, ukrainian factors did not work as a meeting of the un security council should have been initiated on time, and of course, we have received a very important plat

did president zelenskyy give us any hint? that anything has changed?st: we haven't really heard anything from president zelenskyy since he tweeted all this yesterday. basically the official line from the president also from the foreign minister and the ministry of defense is that what is happening in russia is proof that the country suffers from severe internal political turmoil as a result of the invasion of ukraine and that that invasion is really showing the cracks in that system. we did see president zelenskyy make a surprise visit to the front lines looking very relaxed, he consulted with soldiers in a gas station, in very close proximity to the front lines but also to the soldiers. that is a far cry from how we have encountered or experienced president putin in the past 36 or 48 hours or so since the crisis began, since this new technique, rebellion, whatever you want to call it, in russia began. this morning there was a video released of him making an official visit. not clear where it was recorded. then there was that speech that we just heard

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i had a great privilege of meeting with president zelenskyy. i expressed to him not only my unwavering support, but also i believe the unwavering support of the majority of the american people. the war here in ukraine is not our war, but freedom is our flight. america is the leader of the free world. to see the way with american support the support of more than 50 nations with courageous fighters here in ukraine. they have held back what was understood to be the second most powerful military in the world. now, as the summer offensive moves forward, as i learn from president zelenskyy and his security team, the ukrainian military is making teddy advances against the russians -- steady advances against the russians. i assured him for my part we will continue to do everything in our power to be sure we provide the ukrainian military with the support they need to repel -- until they repel the russian nation and restore the sovereignty of his country -- this country. i must tell you personally on a deep level to spend time with families, families wh

ukraine says that zelenskyi helps the world and many peoples of africa, asia and europe to maintain social stability, but how logical is the decision of african leaders to go to russia? i would like to point out that real peace is needed, and therefore the real withdrawal of russian troops from all of our independent land. and this is footage of the meeting of african leaders at the st. petersburg airport. where are they going? submitted after a visit from ukraine to kyiv, as noted by the reuters agency, putin rejected the key elements of the african peace plan , traditionally declaring that russia is not against victory but, of course, against ukraine. also , during the meeting, the russian leader showed his african colleagues the agreement on permanent neutrality and security guarantees of ukraine. to dwell in particular on an important point regarding ukrainian children deported during the large-scale war, i will remind you that on march 17 , the international criminal court issued warrants against russian president putin and commissioner for the rights of the child in russia, maria lvi

the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, said today that this is not a movie. starts , you will see it talking about the counteroffensive, that is, if we haven't seen it yet, it means it hasn't started yet . the general staff also spoke about the counteroffensive, even a senator the united states of america talked about it, and the defense minister of great britain voiced some of his thoughts. benevoles, from what we now see from open sources. can we draw conclusions about where and when the counteroffensive will begin and has it really been possible to expose e-e geolocation from this city out of the blue? well, i'm vasyl. even if i knew, i think i wouldn't have said it in the live broadcast format, we understand that now e-e ukraine has such a certain advantage because it can choose the place and time of the strike these are exactly the two key advantages that the general staff should take advantage of, and the length of the front line is so large that the stretching of the russian forces, frankly, does not allow to resist the first blow after the first blow

a one on one sit down with volodymyr zelenskyy. our chief for be correspondent, richard engel met the ukrainian president in kyiv for a wide-ranging interview that touched on the ongoing counter offensive and zelenskyy's concern that the russians might sabotage the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. here as richard's report >> reporter: ukraine is in a full-scale fight to take back russian-occupied land. >> hi, richard >> reporter: good to see you again. a pivotal moment for our interview with volodymyr zelenskyy at the presidential compound in kyiv this must and very critical time for you. >> very busy >> reporter: >> reporter: for over a year, ukraine has been fighting successfully to defend itself we are now in the easterly days of this long anticipated counter offensive. how is it going? >> i cannot give you all the details. things look not bad. i would say it's generally positive but it's difficult our heroic people, our troops who are now at the front of the frontline are facing very tough resistance. we understand why. becaus

and in this stream we talk about such topics, position by position, we move forward like president zelenskyi says about the advance of ukrainian troops at the front, without naming the populated areas. meanwhile, the russian so-called soldiers reported the withdrawal of the russian army from five houses in zaporizhzhia, which is next to the recently liberated village of lobkov, this information has already been officially confirmed in kyiv, and what is the situation on the front, in which directions are counteroffensive actions ongoing , let's talk about it in detail with the military delegation of the leaders of the paprikan countries visited first ukraine and then russia in order to propose during the press conference, president zelenskyi simply argued with foreign guests who called the war a conflict and then told them about the bloody coup d'état in ukraine and the harmful effects of the event . more about this, the critical situation with water in the dnipropetrovsk region in kryvyi rih has reserves left for one and a half months . the water supply in the city will disappear and the sew

zelenskyy accuses the others of -- and these are zelenskyy's words -- "designating an environmental bombmass destruction." -- "detonating an environmental bomb of mass destruction." the russians deny, of course, that they did it, blaming ukrainians with no proof to back that up. >> seeing firsthand the scale of the damage, volodymyr zelenskyy met officials in charge of the image in kherson. people rescue in towns and villages along the dnieper river had been brought to safety. these satellite pictures show the devastation in towns completely submerged by floodwaters. the collapse of the nova cookoff the dam has triggered fears. campaigners say some species may never recover. >> he could take from three to 10 years for different species to recover, if some of them will be able to recover, but probably some species will not be able to recover two previous numbers or will not recover at all, unfortunately. >> aid agencies are also warning about another more hidden danger, the threat of landmines. the red cross says the breach meant it was impossible to locate some landmines that had been sw

. >>> and volodymyr zelenskyy volodymyr zelenskyy arrives in moldova.olodymyr zelenskyy says his country is ready to join the alliance. >> supporting up and supporting when i had the meeting with him, but it is, you know, we need all of the unity through the alliance >>> european equities open in the green andn hope that the debt ceiling is coming to an end. >>>good morning. welcome to "street signs." the u.s. house has passed the bill to raise the debt limit and cap spending days before the default deadline the act passed 314-117 those in opposition to the measure were 71 republicans and 46 democrats the measure moves to the senate where leaders on both sides want to pass it within 48 hours house speaker mccarthy admitted there had been compromises. >> is it everything i wanted no sitting with a house and democratic senate and democratic president who didn't want to meet with us, we did good. let's cut more because we are in a big debt this is fabulous this is one of the best nights i've ever been here. i thought it would be hard i thought it would be

as you suggest, he directed insults towards president zelenskyy, and barbs towards nato.lked about the destruction that we have seen of some german leopard tanks that have been sent to ukraine. he said that leopard tanks burn and so would f-16s, referring of course to the plan to train ukrainian fighters with f-16s with the aim, of course, of supplying ukraine hasn't been agreed yet, but it clearly is the direction of travel to supply ukraine with f-16s. so it was an hours long keynote speech by president putin. i will say, chris, you know, when you talk to russians on the streets and our team have been talking to them just today in moscow, of course it's important to remember that there isn't free speech in russia and that there have been huge crackdowns on protests against the war, but you get many russians talking about still their approval of president putin, his approval ratings at just the most recently independent polling. there isn't much of that in russia, but there is some. suggests that his approval rating is still up at 82%, up from 69% before the invasion of

for example, volodymyr zelenskyi thanked the president and poland for it.olodymyr zelenskyi discussed further priority needs for the front and expectations from the nato summit in vilnius. he should fix the algorithm for ukraine's accession to the alliance. this is exactly what will happen at the summit. deputy minister of defense of ukraine volodymyr gavrylov believes that nato will not make a decision regarding ukraine despite a consensus decision-making mechanism and ukraine's right to veto the members of the alliance. ukraine aspires to become a member of the north atlantic alliance shortly after the military victory over russia, it wants to receive guarantees of this at the nato summit in vilnius , which will be held on july 11-12 . andrii vygrivskyi, a lawyer, an analyst , joins our broadcast. among the statements of the european leaders of our partners, such as the united kingdom of france, their statements indicate that there is no unity in the opinions of the members of the alliance about the accession of ukraine. however, they talk about possible

the group of african leaders has been holding talks with latimer zelenskyy about a possible peace planthe delegation will travel on to meet the russian president in st. petersburg.delegates would like to hear from both sides of the war and to ensure ukrainian grain exports keep flowing to hard-pressed african countries. russia launched its latest strike on kyiv as they arrived in the city. correspondent: african leaders visited the site of alleged atrocities against ukrainian civilians at the hands of russian soldiers. >> life is important, and we must protect lives, ukrainian and russian lives, global lives. that is important, to protect lives and focus on development. correspondent: the visiting leaders inspected destroyed russian military equipment on display in central keith. a show of support, but the south african president stressed it was not unqualified support. >> the first one is that we are here to listen, to listen both to president zelenskyy, and tomorrow we will be listening to president putin, and we do so with deep respect for the people of ukraine, which we have expres

i don't want to repeat now that the war is allegedly due to zelenskyi's team, but one of the elementss that ukraine is a country that did not exist because the one that did exist is the same they will protect themselves, thanks to the actions of the government, he thought so, besides , the bears told him that the worlds were waiting for him here, but once again i emphasize that it is all in a complex and this is our biggest problem, so i am ready and others. well, let them watch near the marathon. well, what i can also say those who watched benya's marathon in kherson, they were in shock. that in six hours the russians entered kherson, in 12 hours they were already at the kakhovsky hpp. and you look how long we are knocking them out of there and freeing them meter by meter and you know why that's why what they blow up and we didn't blow up, they make it difficult for us to advance and we didn't make it difficult, they were building defense lines now and biden told us to raid the trenches to build roads, we bought bitumen in belarus and we didn't do cholera to build lines, even bridges

in the region, the iconic wartime leader is zelenskyy, right? walking around and his bulletproof vest with his troops. and putin is exactly as you described, in suits and closed doors and long tables and surrounded by literally no. one is it prigozhin's character to leave? to take an amnesty deal, to relocate to belarus and leave his troops there? i think everyone who has followed this saga would be astonished if prigozhin goes into some quiet retirements in belarus. and i think anybody who knows anything about vladimir putin's record of settling at the score with people he feels have crossed him, would also be astonished if vladimir putin allows a man who invaded russia proper, who seize control of a city and who threatened the capitol, to go into some kind of quiet retirement. nicole, you mentioned zelenskyy, who as you can imagine has been very closely following the developments inside russia. the ukrainians are hoping that these internal divisions inside russia may play to ukraine's advantage. especially as they mount the counteroffensive. z

-- volodymyr zelenskyy. >> it was a powerful symbol of a country desperate for help.ot america's zelenskyy gifted a fighter pilot's helmet to his british hosts earlier this year. >> i will explain the writing. we have freedom. give us wings to protect it. >> it was a message she would repeat time and again whenever he could. >> we need more fighter jets. >> ukraine says fighter jets like the u.s. built f-16 would provide groundcover to ground forces, protect people and critical infrastructure from russian missile attacks, and help them win this war. now, it's allies have answered the call. pres. biden: the united states is going to begin training ukrainian pilots and fourth-generation -- in fourth-generation fighter aircraft including f-16. >> the fighter jet coalition looks like this. the u.s., u.k., france, and others have promised to train ukrainian pilots on modern fighting jets and that paves the way for kyiv to get his hands on the cherished f-16 model, -- it's hands on the cherished f-16 model. >> the very first ukrainian f-16 will be one of the strongest signa

>> so zelenskyy wants 50 patriot battery systems.just two, and when it comes to fighter jets, the u.s., the u.s. defense official made clear on friday that that's simply not the priority. that's more of a longer-term goal. the priority at this point is getting tanks on the ground and troops trained to actually use those tanks. they think that that will make a bigger impact on the battlefield, especially with this counteroffensive looming. and in the sky, the u.s. says that, look, it doesn't make sense to try to match russia plane for plane. what makes more sense is to give ukraine the air defense system that it needs, to keep russian jets out of ukrainian air space by and large, so that the tanks and the troops on the ground can do their thing. paula? >> no matter the debate on military strategy, you can see zelenskyy being quite frustrated there. what more did we learn from that "wall street journal" interview, because he was incredibly blunt. >> reporter: he was. this was a long interview, quite a wide-ranging interview and blunt o

confirmed vladimir putin's comments that ukraine is on the attack zelenskyy told reporters to, quote, tell putin that ukrainian generals are feeling good about the ongoing action for the latest on this we go to nbc foreign correspondent claudio lavanga. what do we know about the latest on the fighting there? >> reporter: good morning, jessica. since zelenskyy confirmed the counteroffensive has now started the ukrainian army claims they already conquered three villages previously under russian occupation in the southeast of the country. russia has yet to comment or confirm this, but there is a video on social media showing ukrainian troops raising a ukrainian flag, on a destroyed building on one of those villages and another video shows another ukrainian brigade saying or chanting or shouting glory to ukraine in another of those villages the three villages are small in size and population but are considered to be strategic because they paved the way for the ukrainian military to bigger targets like the city of mariupol or the crimean peninsula or the city of bakhmut which was the scen

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president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy held meetings with 30 and 13 politicians on the sidelines ofthat this is such a powerful platform where about 50 european countries have gathered. that is, you know this, i would say that on the eve of the vilnius summit, on the eve of our counter-navigation summit, we managed to receive a very powerful signal of support from all european democratic countries, and this is extremely important, in addition, many bilateral meetings took place, in particular, a meeting with the prime minister of the united kingdom decided to do so. which, as i understand it, managed to be successfully implemented, first of all, this is the political diplomatic support of ukraine on the eve of the vinnytsia summit, and this significantly increases our chances of obtaining the formula where the formulation of a final document that would suit us from the point of view of creating a suitable algorithm for ukraine's membership in nato well, secondly, i understand that there were very important conversations with representatives of the presidents of various countries and

zelenskyy calling the call a positive and inspiring conversation.president biden for the patriot missile batteries, defending the skies from kyiv, and from russian missiles and drones. those contacts between washington and kyiv happening at all levels of government. defense secretary lloyd austin speaking to his counter part over the weekend, and general milley also speaking to his. we have seen a real contrast also between how president zelenskyy and president biden have been talking about what's going on inside russia. zelenskyy who is a native russian speaker who has been posting videos all weekend in russian speaking directly to both russian troops and the russian people saying your leadership are divided, they don't care about you, president biden much more circumspect, not appearing in front of the cameras until today, and president putin, whether president biden likes it or not, is a peer of his as a fellow leader of a nuclear arms nation, the united states being careful not to be seen cheering for the instability inside russia. meanwhile, ba

president zelenskyy releasing the video, calling it a terrorist attack.t comes with ukrainian escalating strikes over its border into russia. officials in russia say two more civilians were killed by shelling. ukrainian ramping up long range missile strikes on russian occupied southern ukraine ahead of its counter offensive. explosions and smoke rising in videos circulating online. president zelenskyy telling "the wall street journal" his forces are ready for the offensive. warning it could come at a heavy cost. in this village cemetery, there are the graves of six recently killed ukrainian soldiers. president zelenskyy warns many more ukrainian soldiers will be killed in the counter offensive if ukrainian cannot challenge russia's dominance in the skies. but the white house this week addressing concern that advancing ukrainian ground forces could be vulnerable to russian war planes, saying ukrainian has necessary air defense capabilities to go on the attack. officials say three children are in serious condition in hospital after the russian missile strik

all information will be updated. and i pass to the conversation about zelenskyi and culture, because in fact it's also important. i told you this is so very important. we have an extraordinary art watcher on the phone, and our colleague is a presenter and journalist of the espresso tv channel. he welcomes you. hello vasyl, i want to ask you right away. we discussed three topics they talked about zelensky culture. the best example of this complex relationship between the current government and ukrainian culture is the petition for the resignation of the minister of culture, e.e. tkachenko . to sign and the third is a problem with the awarding of the shevchenko prize, which was awarded to certain people, but for some reason these people do not receive this prize, we have a kind of stalemate situation, damn it, but i will now tell people about this petition and you will then say what is going on with tkachenko why is he so firmly held in office by people interested in him the ministry of culture may be left without a leader the petition for the dismissal of oleksandr tkachenko received

zelenskyy thanking the president for america's unflagging sup support. meanwhile at a square inch and five look at russian military wreckage place there as a reminder of past battles they pondered this weekend's events, take a listen. >> it is good yes. of course. we need more civilization and federation bricks definitely they were not going to reach moscow something like that because she wanted wagner to succeed? >> we want unstable in russia unstable. >> is a story like russia what they tried to do. >> eight funny story like the russians tried to do, away from that -- dry wit from that young lady. there's more to come on this deadly and complex standoff. shannon: meanwhile the reports from ukraine will have been successes on the battlefield for ukrainian troops i've been taking advantage of this disarray. they have overcome some russian forces what is the latest on those potential successes? >> for sure there are attempts to make inroads into the russian front line. in particular in the today we heard some advances around that an embattled city of bakh

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ukrainian president zelenskyy pointed to all of this as a sign of russia's weakness amid putin's ongoing invasion of his country. the secretary of state anthony blinken echoed that same sentiment in an interview on meet the press. >> >> what we've seen, russia having to defend moscow and its capital against mercenaries of its own making. and of itself, that's extraordinary. in so doing we've also seen a rise to the surface, profound questions about the very premises through this russian that prigozhin surface very publicly as well as a direct challenge to putin's authority. i think we've seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. >> there are lots of questions here. what's in putin's next move and how does it affect the war in ukraine where wagner forces played a key role and what happens to prigozhin and how long is he allowed to remain alive in exile? also, now that someone's broke in the steel, does anyone else want to try their hand at an armed rebellion? joining us now, ben rhodes former deputy national security adviser to president obama obama, and an msnbc contributor, masha g

a day after doing the same with president zelenskyy in kyiv. the african leaders calling for a deescalation of the conflict and negotiations. mr. zelenskyy said there is nothing to talk about with moscow as long as russian troops in ukraine. for more now, we are following developments from london. the group of african leader is going to meet with the russian leader. what message will they deliver after their visit to ukraine? >> from their perspective part of this delegation, the message is clear. it is a call for deescalation on both sides. this has been touted as a peace mission. it's the first of it's kind. for this particular delegation of african leaders. we heard yesterday from south africa's president speaking alongside president zelenskyy in kyiv. he said that he believes that on the part of the african leaders and the global community that this war needs to end sooner rather than later but believes that it can only be ended through diplomatic means, through negotiation. of course this isn't the first time we have seen efforts or calls

scenario of blowing up the zaporizhia nuclear power plant , the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, announced this . he said that he had brought this information to the leaders of ukraine's allies. the threat of a possible terrorist attack was discussed by the head of the un security council, magatre fel grosia, who recently visited the station and also confirmed that there are explosives inside the enterprise. previously, the head of the main intelligence department, kyrylo budanov, stated that the threat of undermining the station was never as great as it is now. we have and must take concrete steps all together in the world to prevent any radiation incidents joe bidde on the phone with volodymyr zelenskyi confirmed the intentions of the usa to continue to support ukraine in the security, economic and humanitarian spheres, the president of ukraine informed about the call between the leaders of the countries, he also thanked for the support of the coalition of fighter jets that will be supplied by kyiv, as well as for the patriot anti-missile systems that are already in service wi

to light the true extent of the destruction of the country, especially after the shelling. after zelenskyi kherson, in fact, the enemy himself actually shifted the emphasis from customs clearance to the fact that it was the enemy's plan or if the enemy fires at evacuation groups that save the civilian population, it means that it was his plan to create such a scorched earth after himself and now it is very important to focus the attention of the world on this crime, it is necessary to appeal to all er sources available to er, in fact, it is important to delicately accompany er media groups so that journalists of western publications can orient themselves on the spot and see er understanding what uh, now if the enemy fired at the evacuation groups, then he will try to hit uh, media groups, which, uh, uh, the authorities can ensure uh, uh, come to cover these events. it seems that the shelling after zelensky was provoked by the press service of the bank itself, probably they they were in too much of a hurry to report on zelenskyi's visit to kherson, after all, it is very reminiscent of the s

after the talks, president zelenskyy held a news conference with the african leaders.ake a listen. >> russia is the only sort source of war and the only reason why the consequences of this war are causing damage to the whole world. >> nobody can fill that their borders are protected and the safety of their people are ensured while russia is it thatting to make the aggression and the abduction of people as something that is normal. >> we are hear -- here to listen. to listen both to president zelenskyy and tomorrow we'll will listening to president putin. we do so with deep respect for the people of ukraine which we've compressed to president zelenskyy and we argue that -- expressed to president zelenskyy and we argue that from muck de-esque lakes on both sides so that peace can find a way to resolve the perosh. >> south african president ramaphosa speaking -- speaking there. the delegation now heads to moscow to feet with president putin what delivered a speech at showcase st. petersburg international economic forum. helso announced that russia's stationed its first ba

petersburg, yesterday they met with the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi , they survived the siege of kyiv, in general, how much of a plan is this plan well, i think that this is actually we can't say that this is a plan because a-ah it was heard it was heard in a speech at a press conference a-ah from the mouth of the president of par but we heard such a sufficient emotional and critical reaction on the part of zelensky that for now, if there is no such plan as such, and on the contrary, he seems to have played ahead. he said that you will go to moscow and then announce something there after him, then we will not have such surprises by the way, i just re-watched the news about their visit to moscow , the latest news is that the negotiations have started. but before that, there was putin's speech and putin welcomed the balanced approach of african leaders. well , if putin welcomes the balanced approach in his paws auto, there must be something like that and uh, that’s not right, if we look at these 10 points announced to the presidents of the couple, again, we can’t really un

>> i think volodymyr zelenskyy has talked about the conditions of negotiations.ussia must leave sovereign ukraine. that is a legitimate request russia illegally invaded ukraine. that is recognized by the international community. five nations refused to condemn that it is important that russia understands if it wants to extract itself from not only international isolation, but what it is doing in ukraine, it needs to start the process of leaving. they need to realize they lost so many soldiers we have seen putin being critical having lost one of his best friends this is daunting on the russian system the first step is reduce forces. >> if president putin feels he is trapped in a ground war, is there a risk, as you see it, minister, and you are privy to intelligence reports from the field and from russia as well. is there a risk he will resort to nuclear weapons >> in both the soviet and russian doctrine, what they call nuclear weapons is an option for the military battle field. what we saw and the world should recognize the importance of the statement made by indi

president zelenskyi i strongly believe that he fulfills the mission of a newsmaker and not the missionsupreme leader of the state during the war, which is at war, the world is cynical, yes, values ​​are replaced by the word price, yes, they are not ukrainian-centric, yes , every country has its own problems and its own business which is putting pressure on their governments and we now have to say with a pretension why we are and what not in nato no, we have to do something in order to have some security guarantees in addition to the pieces of paper of the budapest memorandum. nato even now we don't know if we should go there or not , these were the previous statements from the president's office , thank god, these people say, guy, you were hired for a job, go, bite too much , they don't owe us anything, they definitely don't owe us, go gnaw away for us it's nato prove promise show action change in order to join the military-political union change something inside the country do form the judicial system and so on no, he came out today as a newsmaker well, that's how i feel about it and

zelenskyy spoke earlier to the prime minister of canada, justin trudeau.he updated him on the state of the counteroffensive here. as we have seen over the last two weeks, the ukrainians have struggled to make grounds. their progress has been measured in small villages, not in cities. the british ministry of defence said earlier today that the ukrainians appear to have paused. they appear to be reset again trying to learn from the mistakes or the struggles or the setbacks of the last couple of weeks. i think the big picture on the battlefield, yasmin, is that there is no sign right now that the ukrainians have been able to capitalize on this disarray inside russia. yasmin? >> for now, for now. we are only 24 hours out from the quote unquote deal. we will have to wait and see how things play out. raf sanchez, thank you. how does this all change the strategy for the ukrainian counter offensive as raf just got into? could the end of the war been ear? could this really be the beginning of the off ramp? former adviser to ukrainian president zelenskyy corner over

thank you so much, richard engel, with president zelenskyy today. you will see more of that throughout the day on msnbc and tonight on "nbc nightly news." >>> pressure points. as the secretary of state heads to china, a look at how cybersecurity here at home will likely be a big topic when he gets to beijing. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. days? getting inspired! volunteering! playing pickleba...! when you sleep more deeply, you wake up more energized. introducing purple's new mattresses - our unique gel flex grid draws away heat, helping you fall asleep faster. it relieves pressure for less "ow," and more "ahhh." and instantly adapts as you move, without ever disturbing your partner. amazing. sleep better. live purple. visit purple.com or a mattress store near you. (vo) sadie's done paying for wireless bundles with things she doesn't need. so she switched to verizon. and now, she has myplan. the first unlimited plan that lets her choose exactly what goes in it. now, she gets to pick only the perks she wants, and saves on every

president zelenskyy says there are still wagner fighters in eastern ukraine. but how much does this incredible turmoil in the russian district from their fight in ukraine, how much turmoil is there right now? >> well, first of all, we'll view that they all are criminals, war criminals. from putin to wagners, to everyone who is doing all this horrible war crimes. but this weekend has shown also that the regime is shaken and the situation is much weaker than we expected. to see this monster that putin has been growing for nine years turn against their masters, walking freely inside russia, you know, again, we still have way too many of them in ukraine. the intent of russians are still very evident from this attacks on kramatorsk and from very high battles that we have. but that all should send all of us not only ukrainians, but all of our friends and allies a very strong signal. regime is weak. empire is collapsing. and we have to double down on liberating all ukraine, showing strength, and defending democracy. >> as you know, ambassador, the united states, the

president zelenskyy invited both to come here and said unless vladimir putin is stopped in this country, there will be a wider war with nato. >> all right, richard, thank you. >>> in manitoba, canadada, at least 15 people arere dead afafter a fifiery highwaway y crash bebetween a sesemi truruck anand a bubus. popolice say t the busus was traveling on highway 5, 130 miles west of the provincial capital winnipeg when it was struck by a semi investigators are working to establish who had the right-of-way or whether a crime was committed. weather and road conditions were clear when the accident happened, and police say both drivers survived witnesses describe the scene of horror with rescue workers trying to pull passengers out of a bus engulfed in flames canadian prime minister justin trudeau offered his condolences. >>> severe weather is still impacting large parts of this country. >> good morning to you both it's been a really busy week weather wise it remains busy even this morning we're looking at storms from texas to louisiana. we have severe thunderstorm watches, warnings, even torna

well, yesterday volodymyr zelenskyi responded to the situation around the kakhovka hpp, let's see andhear what the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine said, we will find a way to restore normal life on to our land after the expulsion of the rashists, this applies to both water and everything else, it applies to all our regions from kherson region to dnipro region, from mykolaiv region to crimea, the fact that russia deliberately destroyed the kakhov reservoir, which is critically important in particular for providing water to crimea, they testify that the russian occupiers have already realized that they will have to flee from crimea, that ukraine will return everything it owns and make russia pay for what it has done mr. colonel, do you agree with volodymyr zelenskyi's statement that blowing up the kakhov reservoir hpp means that the russians do not have long-term plans for crimea, and these plans are becoming shorter every day . the measure of the military leadership may be even before the political one. it does not reach the military leadership of the russian army. the

in his address, volodymyr zelenskyi said about the advancement of ukrainian forces in all directions,about it as of now well, indeed, if we look this morning at the information provided by foreign institutions, in particular, the institute for the study of war, and others, e.g., a military expert who is celebrating the disposition, we see that there is indeed a small movement of our troops, and our troops are being observed. well, i think that this indicates that gradually we still identify these weak points of the enemy and we find in general how to counteract those critical capabilities of russia that does not allow us to move forward, well, first of all, it is the use of a large number of mines barricades, ah, that's about it. it's also known that we don't have enough demining systems, it's also known, maybe somehow this issue was at least partially resolved, and secondly, well, we know that the movements of our uh-uh whiskeys that come the enemy's aviation is seriously hindered by tactical both airplanes and helicopters, and i think, well, the fact is that they are starting to fir

this is exactly what volodymyr zelenskyy said during his daily video address. who heads the russian military forces in ukraine . will be able to protect europe, but for this the event must regularly show its support, we will hear ukrainian soldiers, ukrainian guns, ukrainian tanks, ukrainian missiles - these are all the things that protect europe from such march-broskov i see today on russian territory and when we apply for 16 or atakams we develop our common defense real defense - this is what is needed now it is time to provide all the weapons necessary for defense, well, except for this statement, we heard the same today from volodymyr zelenskyi stating that chaos is happening in russia and in general there is no question of state subordination in this country . this situation has shown it absolutely clearly. but will this become a motivator for european countries for that to support ukraine more decisively even more decisively because russia is really unpredictable and yesterday's situation today proved it in america, who thought that the rassvetskaya count

already going to such puppets before the official press conference, he suddenly grabbed volodymyr zelenskyithe hand and at that moment talked about some kind of road map with the enemy. but after the conference, ian dobronosov says telegraph photojournalist that volodymyr zelensky refused to be photographed together with this leader of the comoros islands, meanwhile, so that our viewers understood what the comoros islands are, uh, former journalist vadym voytyk made a selection of these uh, incredible telling photos, what is it like, this is how they look just on the streets well, these are some more -e signs of civilization, but in principle , of course, in the upa, the sea is littered with trash , and the nature is beautiful, but we see that they are not too extraordinary with this nature, it also happens if you go somewhere there in the carpathians, people throw so much all kinds of junk, all kinds of garbage, unnecessary things, and then it is carried by the rivers, and then somewhere on the border with hungary they try to catch it, but nevertheless, it is just such an illustration for