see how those soviet people and how russian elites thank. if the sanctions succeed in isolating russia, if the russian economy runs into more trouble, that it is and now. if the war in ukraine is not some rapid victory, but proves to be a very difficult engagement for russia. then, i think eventually, putin could and so, having talked at the beginning about a 40 year occupation, i don t believe this one is going to last that long because again, i think the unity against russia in the democratic world really will matter over the long run. and the empire dreams of the soviet union are part of what destroyed it and made it implode on itself. we have reporting now from nbc news about what appears to be explosions, possibly bombings. and i just want to get this
too late to make the right choice. thank you. and there you see the virtual unanimous opposition to russia s movement into ukraine tonight. this is how the meeting at the un security council began tonight. president putin, stop your troops from attacking ukraine. give peace a chance to many people have already died. earlier tonight, the president of ukraine delivered a speech in russian with the hope that it would be heard by the russian people. president zelenskyy said, quote, today i initiated a phone call with the president of the russian federation, the result with silence. though, the silence should be in the donbass. we are separated by more than 2000 kilometers of mutual borders along with 200,000 of your soldiers and 1000 armored
firepower. they may very well be able to quickly overwhelm ukraine s military and disable large portions of it. russian, or rather ukrainian military assets protecting the russian invasion from they won t be able to move to defend kyiv quickly enough, but not the laughs, the ukrainians are a tenacious people and they will defend their homeland. they will defend their ability to decide their own destiny and not to be controlled by the kremlin. i think this will be a very costly endeavor. i certainly hope that nato allies, the west, and allies beyond the last, will sustain crippling sanctions overtime, as long as it takes, to completely debilitate the russian economy. to make the russian people feel the folly of their leader in
the folly of this and the failure of this. the failure won t be tomorrow. it might not be this year. but russia has no record of successfully pulling off invasions like this, taking over countries and then owning them forever. right, i mean the bad news is that the soviet occupation of poland and the old czechoslovakia of hungary, that was a 40-year period, morales, 40, 43 years before they were finally driven out or finally left. so, that s not such good news. i do agree with your premise. if the west stands strong, the sanctions will take time to work. and i think it was very interesting that president philanthropy was trying to appeal over putin s head to the russian people. and obviously, as he said, they were not listening to his speech. but it will be interesting to
four of the un charter. and it s a membership in the united nations is open to all other peace loving states, which except the obligations contained in the present charter. and in the judgment of the organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations. russia is not able. to carry out any of the obligations. the ambassador of the russian federation, three minutes ago, confirmed that his president declared a war on my country.