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The kremlin and the elysee palace over the phone call, our 45-minute phone call between president macron and president putin and president macron followed up that call with a phone call to president zelensky for 30 minutes and president macron also spoke with president zelensky late last night, so there is a diplomatic effort underway and it is around the minsk agreement. there is pressure on ukraine from the kremlin to agree to talk to the separatist leaders in the donbas area in the east of ukraine, the pro-russian separatist leaders. so where are we on that? i think take half a step back. y...

Russian tv, it is playing out in such a way that it could be used as a manipulation over public opinion, eventually in fairly short order for russian forces to go into the donbas region. we've seen today cnn teams have seen today russian forces headed towards that -- that donbas area. so what does that mean? it means that the military gap in donbas in the east is growing wider and, therefore, the diplomatic gap for that one thing president putin is insisting must happen, that president zelensky must talk to the rebel leaders, that diplomatic gap is bigger. so despite these flurries of diplomac...

From crimea were connected with the history of royal family of russia. at the same time, in donbas, the soviet nostalgia was supported, and one of the favourite or most favourite tv channels that is probably still watched there, it is a russian tv channel, nostalgiya, which shows soviet films, very often black and white, 24 hours a day. let me ask you this. are you reconsidering your lifelong artistic decision to write primarily in russian? because, you know, there are ukrainian writers who think that's a form of sort of cultural artistic betrayal. well, i mean, i did have a lot of discussions...

Like in kyiv? is it a city that appears to be readying itself for an assault? joe biden says that that is likely. and zelensky seems very confident not -- not the man who appears about to make major concessions judging by the speech nic was referring to. >> reporter: it's surreal, fareed, because here in kyiv the streets are very quiet but they are also calm. we do not see any evidence that people are preparing for any kind of a major assault and that's in part because ukraine's leadership has had a very different tone from the kind of rhetoric that we've seen coming from the u.s. and from the...