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and kyiv has become louder today and we ve heard a number of explosions in the late afternoon. of, you know, the magnitude we haven t heard for a while. so, with putin you never know. so the situation is at the peak of its uncertainty. that would be my description. okay, as you say. let s not get ahead of ourselves. the current issue right now that you have president biden in poland. he was 60 miles from the border. he has been attempting to rally nato and european allies against russia, with more support for ukraine. obviously, president zelenskyy s not getting everything his been asking for from nato or the west. what is going to allow you to fight longer? what is the bare minimum that you can come away with from president biden s trip? well, look, there s a simple
adviser to the ukrainian president zelenskyy. mr. novikov, thank you for being here. we appreciate your time. we realize it s the middle of the night. i do want to ask you about this speculation. these reports that russia is saying, basically all we were looking for was donbas. and everything else was a distraction. what do you make of that? well, i think the military operation has not gone to plan. with the wording, here i wouldn t trust anything the russia says. we run into major trouble around kyiv, they ve run into to the northwest of kyiv, it s not gone to plan for them around and southern ukraine, i think the only area where their operation is semi successful that would be eastern ukraine. and, my cousin is actually a soldier on the front lines in the eastern ukraine, so i get daily reports from him.
chernihiv is thought to be strategically important for russians because it stands on the route towards kyiv, from the north. but now that there is some indication that the russians are narrowing their military objective. the perspective is changing. russian military officials today held a briefing in front of a very big map. saying that the operation in ukraine is entering a new phase, focused on the complete liberation of the donbas. that, you will recall, is the eastern region that russia and ukraine have been fighting over for years. the russian officials claim today that russia s assault on cities like kyiv, that was just a distraction. to lure ukrainian forces away from the east. which seems like a pretty ridiculous assertion. but it is sparking some hope that the russians are rethinking. the bredth of the military operation. joining us now from kyiv is igor novikov, he s a former
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