And you give us the weapon, and this what they are saying, you give us the weapons to fight, and you don t put the boots on the ground, and we will fight it, but it is not just about us, but it is about everyone around the world, and citizens who believe that democracy and territorial integrity is the path to follow. so we are here, one year later after president putin has tried to put an end to that, and let s not mistake putin s goals. s it is not about nato, but it is about anything that strengthens any of his neighbors approach to the west and to values that are not being upheld inside of russia, itself. yeah, he is claiming it is like security purposes, but we can see the clear reason. clarissa, you are on the ground in kyiv, and you are there watching as president biden was there sending the significant message yesterday by making the trip to ukraine, and obviously, this is something that russian state media has said that putin is not going to be watching biden s speech, and he
But extraordinarily, as well, has been the response of the ukrainian people and the world. one year after the bombs began to fall, russian tanks rolled into ukraine. ukraine is still independent and free. from kherson to kyiv, the land has been reclaimed. the blue and yellow flag of ukraine proudly waves again. president zelenskyy still leads a the world has already voted multiple times, including the united nations general assembly, to con russia s aggression and support a just peace. each time that vote has been
Us that he is trying to mobilize and gear up the russian population for a war that could take very, very long. he says that russia s economy has proved to be resilient and they will continue to be remain resilient as this goes on despite the sanctions levied on the russians, and he said that this is key as well that if nato, if the u.s. gives ukraine those longer range weapons that russia would then have to push the ukrainians further back, and that is obviously going to mean a further escalation of some of the events that the russians have already started and that we know that appear to be under way, kate. fred, thank you for being there, and we will return to you also later in the hour. over to ukraine right now where the people and their leaders will be paying very close attention to of course what biden is about to say. clarissa ward is standing by in kyiv. what are you hearing from the people there? well, i think that the people here are still feeling pretty buoyant after yest
Unaidable. as the president was coming into kyiv, it became clear they were headed into a split screen moment, and not simultaneous by near simultaneous with the two visions. you have heard the one from president putin which is that the west started the war, that the united states continues to be a major aggressor, and that he is suspending his participation in the last remaining nuclear treaty, because he could no longer trust the west not to pass on what inspectors learned to the ukrainians as they attacked bases, russian bases just over the border, bases that are used for nuclear bombers. so, what you are seeing is basically the shatter of sort of the last areas in which the united states and russia were at
Mr. mayor. to all of the former ministers and presidents as well as mayors and polish political leaders from all across the country, and thank you for welcoming me back to poland. you know it was nearly one year ago, nearly one year ago that i spoke at the royal capital here at warsaw, and weeks after vladimir putin had unleashed the murderous assault in ukraine, and the largest land war since world war ii had begun, and the principles that had been the cornerstone of peace, prosperity and stability on this planet for more than 75 years were at risk of being shattered. one year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i have just come from a visit to kyiv and i can report
Michael, you re the ambassador in kyiv. it s a scaled back embassy and all of a sudden, you re getting a presidential visit with no military on the ground. not only no military, but none of the usual component of any kind of security on the ground. amazing. right? it is amazing. and by the way, we have a fantastic ambassador in kyiv who knows how to handle this so we re lucky she s in place. and they do have a scaled back team, but they have a first rate team. second, i just want to say i applaud president biden for making this trip. this is a symbolic trip. it s a historic trip. it s a strong signal to ukrainians that they are with him. some of those people he was shaking hands with there, they were just in munich with us two days ago and i was hearing from them about how they needed to feel this support. so i think it was a very important visit. by the way, it also weds
a couple of points here. on the russian offensive, i do not see a large scale synchronized attack by russia. russia is incapable. they ve demonstrated that they re incapable and incompetent of having a large scale. think back to when they tried to take kyiv. when they tried to assemble down in the east and sweep from the east to kherson. they could not execute a large scale, coordinated attack. what i do see in those 800 miles richard talked about is small scale combat operations y the russians. so for the ukrainians to be able to counter that, they re going to need to have additional artillery. yes, i would love to get fighter jets in there, attack helicopters so they can attack long range to go after the
United states speaks truth, difficult though it may be for some to hear. and former president carter surrounded by family after the 98-year-old s decision to begin home hospice care. we ll have a live report from his hometown of plains, georgia. good day, everyone. happy presidents day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. president biden surprising the world with an overnight visit to meet with ukraine s president zelenskyy in kyiv. the first president and the first american president to go to a war zone with no u.s. military presence for security on the ground. a message the world that despite divided congress at home, the u.s. will supply ukraine with what it needs to fight putin s forces. russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is
How do you think all of this might affect putin s speech? i think he s going through his speech right now overnight with a red pen and will make that language even tougher, even more about this being a fight between russia and the u.s. you know, i also expect that there s a high potential that we will see another missile barrage attacking kyiv because these folks on his right flank, on putin s right flank are really upset. it was all over the russian tv today, pictures of biden and zelenskyy hugging and walking around. it s infuriating them. i think putin has to show that he s a tough guy. colonel, to that point i was in lviv in ukraine last march when president biden was speaking over the border in poland and russia conducted air strikes right before president biden was set to speak. you had the sense they did it so that all the cameras that we
Important to note the west delivers weapons and money to kyiv quite regularly in huge kwa quantities allowing the companies to earn money and steal weapons to sell to terrorists around the world. and he has become pretty hard lined himself in the past couple of months. this is one of the narratives we are seeing the kremlin push, and they say they are not in a war with ukraine but in a war with the west who is giving weapons to ukraine. one thing we will also probably hear in putin s speech as well tomorrow, john. we will be listening. fred, thank you very much. with me now is cnn national security analysts and former deputy director of intelligence, and a cnn military analyst. put this into context for us. how big of a deal was it for president biden to make this trip happen? i think it was a big deal.