could sweep through ukraine maybe in a couple of weeks. but now we re a week in, and they ve taken just one major city. clearly this is not playing out as putin had planned. what are the problems here? what does he do next? yeah. well, the military may have planned the russian military may have planned to come in there and finish it in a week or two, but they didn t count on the warm weather north of kyiv. that land up there is not frozen, and so the russians have been road bound. this was their main objective. they wanted to sweep into kyiv, take it, and install a puppet government, and they just haven t been able to get there. they ve also discovered that the ukrainians are pretty good fighters. they re, in fact, brilliant against an overwhelming force. and so the russians have had very, very tough going north of kyiv in large part because of fierce resistance but also because of the trafficability of the ground. it s been different elsewhere in the country not because the ukrain
target number two. for days zelenskyy has been leading the resistance using social media to call on ukrainians to fight. the world has seen that ukrainians are powerful, ukrainians are courageous. just this morning on his facebook page he posted this about russia s bombing campaign. they have an order to erase our history, our country, erase all of us. he went on to call ukrainians a symbol of invincibility. a day early zelenskyy got a standing ovation with the parliament for inspiring words like this. every square of today, no matter what it is called it is going to be called as freedom square. in every city of our country. nobody is going to break us. we are strong. we are ukrainians. zelenskyy has won the hearts of many around the world inspired by his resilience and
ukrainians. here s the thing, first of all let me thank you for the job you are doing. you and cnn are telling truth to the worl. this is a strong weapon against russian aggression. in terms of the talks, i believe these talks are no more than the smoke screen. putin is a liar. he s a killer. i don t believe that putin wants to negotiate. he has a huge opportunity and big window opportunity to solve these problems. solve this crisis. not to wage this war. but he ll lie to the world. to us and you and his people. i don t expect anything good out of the talks with the russian federation. what do you make of putin putting nuclear forces on high alert. sorry, continue. i do respect the decision of
see him in his building and that essentially come up with an agreement of the various conditions for civilian life to continue in that town. a curfew, people moving around at daylight, and also pedestrians allowed to move around in ones and twos and ordered very clearly to obey the instructions of armed men. that s the russian soldiers, as i said, not mentioned by name but clearly the armed force now in that town because the same statement says that ukrainian armed forces have indeed left. the mayor says that the ukrainian flag will still be flying over his building, but it is unclear really if that is just entirely symbolic or a broader concession. this concerning because it shows how russia has designs on the daily lives of ukrainians in towns that it has fought over. it does appear there may have been some pockets of resistance inside of kherson to this russian move-in, bu.
soldiers or pilots to ukraine. but anything short of that, i think we have to do, it and we have to do it now. and why do you think we haven t? well, the biden administration, with respect to the mig-29 plains from poland. this back and forth, the polish originally said they were gonna give it to us, and then we didn t want them, we said it would be risky. but they say is they re worried about escalation from putin, they re also worried about the logistics of how do you get those make 20 nines there, and where they will fly from. those are legitimate questions, i want to be clear about that. and it is escalatory to send those planes. and it is a bit of a shiny objects right now. we are all focusing on those mig-29 s, in fact the ukrainians already have john herbst mig-29 that they re not fly, because russia has really good air defense systems, they don t wanna lose some. i think we need to be focused on surface to air missiles,