thank you for joining us on this tuesday. today an extraordinary moment. just days from the one-year mark of russia s brutal war on ukraine, two world leaders, two cups kwngsal speeches, president biden in poland, reiterating america s support for ukraine and president putin in moscow blaming western nations for the escalating war. we will not tire. president putin s craving lust for land and power will fail and the ukrainian people s love for their country will prevail. ukraine will 1/never be a victo for russia, never. translator: the elite of the west do not conceal their ambition which is to defeat russia, finish us off once and for all. let me be frank, it is they who unleashed this war and we use force to stop them. happening as russian bombs continue to drop. a warning to viewers these next images out of ukraine are graphic. this was the scene in kherson this morning. russian shelling killing at least five people and this time it was a market that was targeted. p
well several things. first off, i m very pleased he went to ukraine and then went to poland and delivered this speech because what he s doing is laying out the case, why ukrainian s fight for freedom is america s fight as well. that it is important to the united states that ukraine be victorious in this war. the follow on from this should be that we accelerate our support for ukraine. we ve been a bit slow in the way we provided support over the past year. we need to help the ukrainians win more quickly. it s too early for a victory lap but great he s out there saying that we are committed. i want to talk to you more about that in a moment, but president putin also gave his speech this morning, and he made a pointed announcement about suspending participation in the start nuclear treaty. do you think there s any significance to that at this moment? not really. they weren t full implementing
essentially talking about their support with duda saying that america is so critical to keeping the world order and maintaining it as it is, is remarkable in and of itself. on the campaign trail before president biden was president biden when he was candidate biden, he was essentially twh warning that poland was going down a road of totalitarian regime and the war in ukraine has changed that dynamic and president biden has visited here twice in warsaw in a year given two forceful speeches, pushing back on putin with the support of the polish president behind him. yeah. absolutely. and poland has been i think one of the loudest voices calling for nato to stand strongly behind ukraine and this conflict. kaitlan collins, always great to have you with us. thank you for that. for his part today, vladimir putin insisted the situation in ukraine is the west s fault. in a long speech putin also said that russia is suspending its
legally. the other thing is to offer more in the way of material support. this was a strong speech, forcefully delivered, but wasn t much news in it. the news did come yesterday with a $500 million military aid package announced by president biden, so these words of support are certainly welcomed. very welcomed by the ukrainian people. what they do want at the end of the day are the tools that they can use to push russian forces out of their country. it s a very good point. the asks are still on the table and as of right now the biden administration doesn t seem to be moving forward on them. alex, great to have you on the ground for us there. let s continue the conversation with former u.s. ambassador to nato kurt volker, the u.s. special representative for ukraine negotiations. ambassador, what is your reaction to president biden s speech today? what stood out to you?
the treaty anyway and they pulled out other treaties anyway, suspended the cfe, pulled out a long time ago. there s no surprise here. it doesn t mean that we re embarking on a new arms race because russia doesn t necessarily have the means or desire to invest in more nuclear weapons anyway. i think what they are trying to do is get the attention of the biden administration and get people worried so that maybe we won t support ukraine so much, but that s not going to work. in addition to, frankly, a lot of falsehoods that putin expressed this morning in the speech about why the war started and who was responsible for it, when clearly russia was the one who amassed troops on the border of ukraine and practically enkirkled that country, he already sees the united states as player in this war. are you concerned he could use any pretext at this point to expand this conflict? we ve heard the polish prime minister saying over the weekend they re worried about moldova. the moldovan leader wa