it was not informed and that ukraine and turkey had gone against the terms of the deal. the release came after president zelensky met with president erdogan in turkey ahead of an upcoming nato summit. turkey s leader saying ukraine deserved to be invited into the alliance. president zelensky returned home not just with that endorsement, but also five military heroes by his side. let s get some of the day s other news now. the ukrainian and polish presidents have gathered to commemorate let s get some of the day s other news now. the ukrainian and polish presidents have gathered to commemorate the volhynia massacres which took place between 1943 and 191t5. they honoured victims in a church ceremony in an ukrainian city of lutsk. the massacres, in which 100,000 thousand civilians died, are regarded by some poles as genocide, but ukrainians feel they were a persecuted minority and the subject has been a source of tension between the two countries. pope francis has announced the names
kingdom. you will then travel to vilnius, lithuania this week for the 74th nato summit. u.s. president biden coming down the stairs right now. and he is been greeted on the tarmac. please, continue to watch msnbc all for the rest of today, all week because we will be covering the presidents trip abroad and the nato summit. that is it for me folks, thank you for watching symone on this sunday. i am symone sanders-townsend, you can catch me right here on as msnbc weekends at four pm eastern. anytime over on the peacock, where new episodes on the msnbc hub every monday. if you want a little more of the show, including behind the scenes videos, you will not see anywhere else and find us on instagram, twitter, and tiktok. politics nation with the great reverend al sharpton is next. raf yesterday we were talking about that superintendent in oklahoma who said the tulsa race massacre was not really about race. now, we are hearing the three survivors of the massacre had their case for reparatio
and president biden gearing up for an international trip this week. biden will be traveling to the uk where he will meet the prime minister and king charles. biden then goes to lithuania, where he will attend the 74th nato summit, and then to finland for the high-stakes nato and nordic leaders summit. all of this coming in the wake of the wagner mercenary mutiny in russia. cnn s priscilla alvarez joins me now. price sc priscilla, what can we expect from these meetings? a lot of the focus of these meetings will be the war in ukraine. as you mentioned, the president going on this three-country trip next week. he ll start that trip in the united kingdom, where he ll meet with king charles iii, who was recently coronated, but president biden did not attend that coronation and said the first lady attended. and he will also be meeting with the british prime minister who was here at the white house last month. so expect the discussions between the two of them to continue, particularly aga
big focus at the nato summit. the president has repeatedly talked about that strong alliance, saying, quote, also, that they have never been more united. so, expect that they ll be talking about the war, the counteroffensive, which has started, as well as those internal tensions in russia that we saw play out last weekend. now, the president will then conclude his trip in finland. so all of these countries will have high-stakes meetings for the president. and will again focus on those regional partnerships with the president, often touts those alliances and what the path forward looks like, especially as this war in ukraine continues. and you can also expect that the president will be talking about democracy, the importance of it. it s something that comes up often when he talks about the war in ukraine, and especially in this moment will be something that we ll be looking out for from the president, paula. and could world leaders possibly discuss ukraine s