our country are now blocked. nobody is going to enter and intervene with our freedom and country. believe you me, every square of today, no matter what it is called, is going to be called as today freedom square in every city of our country. nobody is going to break us. we are strong. we are ukrainians. we have a desire to see our children alive. i think it is a fair one. yesterday 16 children were killed. again and again president putin is going to say that is some kind of operation and we are a military infrastructure. our children, what kind of military factories do they work at? what tanks are they going with
approaching, not there yet, approaching an inflection point where he can make a decision it is going badly militarily and playing poorly at home. is there a chance for some sort of off ramp? is there a face-saving measure, perhaps a separatist territory where putin can cut his losses and get out and it would be a win for the ukrainian people or does putin feel he has to win to hang on to power and that s when the convoy is unleashed, if putin steps up the number of shelling and sends more troops in. he has only sent in half of the troops gathered at the border, he certainly has many more to go. one thing white house officials and we heard from the pentagon is pushing back against the idea of a no-fly zone and want to clarify what it is. it is not a magic carpet you can put over a country and say, hey, nobody flies here.
right from the beginning of the speech he was making the case maybe joe biden needs to make tonight. we are you. yes, he needs to channel that. we are your values. we are fighting for western values, for european values and for democracy. we are doing this for you. and this as, again, this is something that joe biden actually can plug into. this is a battle that we ve all been talking about over the past five, six years, western democracy, liberal democracy, institutions that have guided us safely in the post-world war that s prevented world wars. they have been attacked. they ve been attacked by donald trump. they ve been attacked by victor orbahn. they ve been attacked by populists in country after country. of course, in russia, but you
parts of europe and they re slowly making their way to those friends and family. trains are all free here for ukrainians or people coming from ukraine, so that s a great help. but, look, we are talking about massive, massive numbers. the polish prime minister yesterday said it is a crisis that is growing by the hour. they re seeing 100,000 people a day come into this country alone. and, as you mentioned, they re coming into bordering countries as well. poland has opened its arms to these people. the european union is talking about giving them three years of temporary residency so they can work, they can access benefits, but there is mounting pressure on other countries around the world, not least of which the uk. boris johnson, the prime minister, is here today, to open their doors as well and to allow some of these people in because, quite frankly, poland and these