russian armour still rolling forward, moving to encircle ukraine s forces in the donbas, an advancing army, liberating the people of this region, providing them with humanitarian aid. that is the picture the russians want to present of the invasion they still refuse to call a war. they say they are destroying western weapons and killing foreign mercenaries. but from the ukrainians, you get quite the opposite impression. this is a coalition of soldiers defending their homeland, orjoining from around the world to face down a global threat. we are on the right side of the history, so we re going to make sure all of us are going to get back home with our families and make sure the occupants are not going to do the same. now, the truth of what s really going on is shrouded in the fog of war.
joe inwood, reports, both sides are presenting very different pictures of how the conflict is unfolding. russian armour still rolling forward, moving to encircle ukraine s forces in the donbas. an advancing army, liberating the people of this region, providing them with humanitarian aid. that is the picture the russians want to present of the invasion they still refuse to call a war. they say they are destroying western weapons and killing foreign mercenaries. but from the ukrainians, you get quite the opposite impression. this is a coalition of soldiers defending their homeland, orjoining from around the world to face down a global threat. we are on the right side of the history, so we re going to make sure all of us are going to get back home with our families and make sure the occupants are not going to do the same. now, the truth of what s really going on is shrouded in the fog of war.
foreign mercenaries. but from the ukrainians, you get quite the opposite impression. this is a coalition of soldiers defending their homeland, orjoining from around the world to face down a global threat. we are on the right side of the history, so we re going to make sure all of us are going to get back home with our families and make sure the occupants are not going to do the same. now, the truth of what s really going on is shrouded in the fog of war. both sides put out the messages they want the world to hear. translation: as soon - as we have enough western long range weapons, we will push their artillery away from our positions. and then, believe me, the russian infantry, they lljust run. what we do know for certain is that it is the people of this region who are paying the price. this is the town of lysychansk, just across the river from severodonetsk.
is now acting in a state of terrorism. what do you think that would do on the world stage, and how can the united states and other countries continue support? we just saw that the president this past week released $800 million in additional weaponry to ukraine. but what else needs to be done? well, the reality is the russian regime has been doing this horror not just in ukraine but all around the world when you look at what it has done in syria, central afghan republic, you see this is a global actor and trying to cause as much chaos in global world order and global national law as is possible. so this is long overdue that mr. putin and the regime he s leading is recognized as a global threat to innumerable crises and trying to subvert
coalition of the west or one of the leaders, that s where you ll see the public descent that saue united states on the world stage. the stuff joe biden has done in the last couple months having to do with ukraine is reminiscing of george h.w. bush and in the face of a global threat, america will take a leadership role. he does not seem in polling or the republican party at the moment to be getting any credit for that. no, i think you ll see quietly, right, nobody in the republican party that is responsible wants to give joe biden credit because they re all political narcissists but i think you ll see congress, a number of leading republicans respond affirmatively to biden s request for i believe 7 billion in u.s. assistance to ukraine, military and non-military. i think the interesting question, where if we truly had a serious conversation about this, is it too many for the united states and west to establish and expand a more permanent presence in places