minister modi in india. india is still helping finance this war by buying oil from russia. they, with china and a few other countries are bailing russia out, bailing vladimir putin out. do you think we can get anywhere in these talks today to persuade them that the attack on civilians at the train station, the killing of so many people, the injuring the killing of children, the attacks on women and children, what s been happening in mariupol to try to wean india of that critical support for vladimir putin. a couple of things on this, andrea. so russia is not a primary energy supplier for india. russian imports into india constitute maybe 2, 3% of india s energy imports. here s the point, we have made clear to countries around the world, especially to countries with significant level raj,
we have with india, and we ll have an opportunity to discussion the brutal russian campaign against ukraine. of course india did vote against and with russia at the u.n. last week, so india is still very much partnered with russia and as is china and several others, and just very quickly, we saw the dramatic pictures over the weekend, ursula van der haden, and boris johnson walking through the city of kyiv talking to citizens. do you think it s possible that a u.s. delegation, top leaders from the u.s. could actually go to kyiv? i don t want to rule anything in or rule anything out, we are constantly looking at the security situation. one of our primary concerns is the safety and security of u.s. diplomats and u.s. personnel on the ground. i don t have anything to announce now. what i can tell you, andrea, we have had plenty of occasion in recent weeks to meet with our ukrainian partners face to face. you were there last week in
so well, keep the western focus on ukraine. keep ukraine at the top of the agenda. and having prime minister boris johnson walk through the city sites with him does just that. there s an entirely different story on the outskirts of kyiv where we continue to see the atrocities that the russians left behind when they were treated. we were in irpin today, andrea. that bridge in irpin, was one of the centers, one of the symbolic images at the beginning of the war. people were trying to escape from irpin into the capital of kyiv. we went back to the bridge today. it s not passable by cars but the military, andrea, has actually put in a temporary makeshift bridge, and today it opened back up, which means thousands of people can now return to their homes in irpin, or at least see what s left. we spoke with one young man, andrea, his name is sergey, take a listen. what do you say after not seeing people for a month? i was very happy to see them
we need to start interventions immediately to prevent and respond to gender-based violence now. nbc foreign correspondent molly hunter is in kyiv. take us through the latest fighting to the east. boris johnson s dramatic visit to kyiv on saturday. andrea, good afternoon, that s exactly right. so the focus here in the last couple of days is absolutely shifted to the east. of course in the last week, ten days, we saw russian troops retreat from the area i m in, around kyiv and the suburbs around kyiv, and now ukrainian officials are saying that they are ready for an increased, heightened attack in the east. they are preparing, zelenskyy said overnight, president zelenskyy said they are ready. you mentioned those satellite photos showing an 8-mile long column of military vehicles. we have photos showing military vehicles heading toward car tel aviv. a city in the east where the train station was that the
coming from kyiv right now. and kuleba also telling chuck todd yesterday on meet the press that they re willing to have peace talks despite the atrocities in bucha and of course at train station. remarkably they re willing to talk but they don t see any partnership from the russian side, right? that s right, andrea, and i think ned repeated what the state department has been saying for a while. they don t think russia is serious about some kind of a peace agreement. it is interesting, i mean, those atrocities may not be stopping the government from saying they re willing to go to the table, but remember, andrea, that any agreement that zelenskyy and kuleba might strike with the russians has to have at least some support among the ukrainian people, and the longer this war grinds on, and the more we see these horrific atrocities, the more difficult it s going to be for them to make political concessions that regular ukrainians are going to accept and that would allow some kind of a