all ukrainian are demonstrating putin miscalculation about blitzkrieg. all ukrainian is demonstrating that they are fighting against when putin said that ukrainian will meet russian troops with flowers, the only flowers for russian soldiers is the molatov cocktail. so this is the very nature of ukrainian to protect our nation. and that s why it is so difficult for putin to fight big russia, to fight against absolutely peaceful european country and european nation like ukraine and ukrainians. so i think that this is a good idea to protect kyiv. every person has a has a possibility of being afraid. but when you re protecting your
and her mother today. and they were talking about this divide between the younger generation and the older generation. and the older generation remembers world war ii. they remember the fascists, the real fascists. and now putin s message is ukraine is a neo-fascist country. so among the older russians there s actually fear they are going to be hurt, someone will come and attack them. but the younger people don t have that. i think if you boil that down to what they really feel, this would be the more educated big city, but it s not exclusively that. they feel that russia because of this is going to be so isolated that they won t have an opportunity to really be part of europe, that they will be cut off, russia will be isolated in many different ways. and the chance to, you know, study and travel and be modern europeans will be taken away
go. our thanks to arawa damon in poland. just so many people suffering right now. so many people uncertain about their futures. a short time ago the white house announced it was expelling selected russian banks from s.w.i.f.t. that is the high security network that links thousands of financial institutions around the world. it is yet one more economic sanction designed to pressure vladimir putin to end his assault on ukraine. let s go straight to jeff zeleny at the white house. jeff, it was just two days ago that president biden said that the eu wasn t there yet on moving forward with s.w.i.f.t. now we re seeing a targeted selection of russian banks as it pertains to s.w.i.f.t. what happened? reporter: pamela, the joint statement from the u.s. and european leaders as well as canada was really significant this evening. when it is targeting those select russian banks, essentially expelling them from the global financial community. this has not happened before, and what they are tryin
will expel certain russian banks from the high security network known as s.w.i.f.t. the white house says the goal is to ensure the war is a, quote, strategic failure for vladimir putin. i want to bring in cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem, an assistant under secretary for president obama and now a professor at the harvard kennedy school. what does that mean, juliette, a strategic failure? we heard president biden say a couple of days ago this isn t about deterring putin right now in the near term. so what does it mean for the long-term? so i think we have to look at this war now on many fronts, of course the most significant and, you know, the most hard, the most tragic is of course the military conflict we re seeing in ukraine right now with russia s aggression. but there s i was writing it down financial, diplomatic, legal, cyber, covert, humanitarian efforts all going on simultaneously. so it can seem really confusing. so when the president says
consolidate the picture here for russians, that things are going aokay, they re hoping it s going to be a quick operation, but it appears it s not going to be. and if there are russian soldiers killed as we know there are, but there are no figures at this point, that could have an effect back here at home. yeah, what will happen when those body bags arrive back in russia? kimberley, you not only study russian and eastern european history, you lived for a time in eastern ukraine. so you have said this invasion is about expanding putinism. what do you mean by that? so i think we hear a lot of conversations about putin explaining some old idea of the soviet union, but what i argue is this is putin reliving this russian imperial idea, and this is key to idea because of ukraine s important role in russian imperial history but also soviet history. so when i say this war is existential, it is because ukraine cannot survive if putin gets his way because putin wants a ukraine that is part o