ukrainian president zelenskyy that ukrainian will defend capital kyiv to the last man as the russians continue to move tens and thousands of troops ever closer, one high ranking officer said the coming battle could quote dwarf anything we've seen since world war ii. joining me now reporter from "the washington post." what do we know about the status of any negotiations? and where are the russians currently in their efforts to take kiev? kyiv? >> negotiations are something they keep talking about. we haven't seen a lot of progress, but russians don't seem to be particularly interested in that. when it comes to location kyiv has been largely in the same sort of situation for many days now, which is to say for the most part forces are on the outside of the city, you're continuing to see them hit the city with long-range munitions, artillery, rockets, things of that sort, but they're