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headquarters in new york city on this presidents' day. there are high stakes today. joe biden, the first president in modern history to travel to a war zone without u.s. troops already on the ground. the message his visit is sending to ukraine, america's allies and the american people as he gears up for another run at the white house. how is vladimir putin responding to the president's diplomatic slap in the face as the kremlin tries to spin something positive out of a war marked by frustration and failure? we'll have a live report from moscow coming up. and ron desantis welcoming ...

Poland's president, meeting with the so-called bucharest nine, the other eastern flank nato allies, which is while a year later rush is scrambling still, having thought it would topple kyiv quickly, the president was able to stand there and western solidarity is as strong as ever behind the ukrainian government. >> erin, there's the symbolic show of support and material show of support. i want to ask you about both of those as the shot behind you looks beautiful in a country devastated by war. i can only imagine the emotional ups and downs this country has gone through. i wonder at this hour i...

Genocide as president zelenskyy has described it playing out in bucha. there are reports and interviews all a day long of what cities and what has happened in places where we don't yet have journalists documenting it. what is your sense of this moment and where we're heading next? >> i think what you are seeing exposed now, nicolle, is two things. one is the level of russian ineptitude and evil. they tried to capture kyiv quickly. they failed. they suffered a devastating defeat in the north of ukraine in the last several weeks. they lost probably at least 15,000 soldiers. ukrainians say 18,000...

Shock and awe campaign planned. that they would rush in, get down to kyiv quickly, depose zelenskyy, put in their own puppet regime, and then let the ukrainians accept that and move on. what they have found on is quite the opposite. >> joining me now is zachary burkeheart who traveled to ukraine shortly after the war began to help train the ukrainians to fight. welcome to you, zachary. so i want to get into just your journey over there, but i also want to talk about your background here. you are a fellow combat veteran, you and a fellow combat veteran named mark and a ukrainian man named yuri ...

In lviv, and our breaking news tonight, a top russian general claims what he calls the first stage of russia's military plan is completed, and russia will now focus on, quote, the liberation of donbas in eastern ukraine. russian forces digging in to defensive positions on the outskirts of kyiv and no longer trying to move on the ground towards the capital. that is according to a senior u.s. defense official. they're still attacking the city from the air like this assault today on the biggest oil depot near kyiv. take a look at your screen now. vladimir putin wanted to take kyiv quickly. he did...