continues to step up. just hours ago, tiktok and netflix joined a growing list of international companies that are suspending operations and access inside of russia. and it comes just as the international community tries to top putin down again. earlier today, the russian leader spoke with the both the turkish and french presidents. and a source tells and bc news that francis emmanuel macron pressed putin on his seizure of ukraine and urged him to coordinate humanitarian corridors so that ukrainian citizens could escape battle areas. macron s push comes just hours before both sides are supposed to meet for a third round of negotiations on monday. on monday excuse me. we start this hour with nbc s cal perry live with us in lviv where he has been throughout this entire conflict. as we just have that big picture overview there, we talk about the politics and the diplomacy, some of the developments on the business side, trying to squeeze russia even more. let us start with those negotiatio
efforts. it along with the other mediation efforts. . , along with the other mediation efforts. ., , ., ., efforts. if that is one element of the diplomacy. efforts. if that is one element of the diplomacy, next, efforts. if that is one element of the diplomacy, next, if- efforts. if that is one element of the diplomacy, next, if you - efforts. if that is one element of| the diplomacy, next, if you could help me with a military equation. we talked in the last couple of weeks about the amount of military aid that the west is trying to supply to ukraine. but of course there is a difference between promising aid and actually getting those weapons into the theatre of war. to what degree do we think this assistance is beginning to impact the military equation on the main battle areas. i think it is having a huge impact. whenever we hear about the ukrainian resistance what you hear? you hear about the javelins, anti tank missiles, you hear about them losing surface to air missiles, you h
minister has said and the president has said that they are ready to be the venue to hold talks between the president, between the two presidents. and indeed we heard from john simpson s report that turkey underlined that some of these decisions can be left to negotiators or even foreign ministers who have met in the last few weeks, they have to be presence. on both of them have said they are ready to meet but that has to be prepared. so it is important details from john simpson from what the turks say that they are managing to achieve along with the other mediation efforts. so if thatis the other mediation efforts. so if that is one element of the diplomacy, next if you can help me with the military equation. with talk to the last few weeks about the amount of military aid of the west is trying to supply to ukraine. of course there is a difference between promising aid and actually getting that weaponry into the theatre of war. to what degree do we think this assistance is genuinely be
impact the military equation on the main battle areas? main battle areas? i think it is havin: a main battle areas? i think it is having a huge main battle areas? i think it is having a huge impact. - main battle areas? i think it is i having a huge impact. whenever main battle areas? i think it is - having a huge impact. whenever we hear about the ukrainian resistance, what you hear is you hear about the javelins, anti tank missiles. when you hear about them using surface to air missiles you hear about the sting is also provided by nato armies. you hear about the equipment being used by the ukrainian forces. president zelensky, with one of his video calls with european leaders talked about all the weapons coming in. he said thank you very much for the weapons but what you send us in a week, we use in 20 hours. and that is what he said against the us congress. thank you very much, we need more, we need fighterjets and of course he said we need you to close the sky. in his word, in o
russian weaknesses, russian inability to mount complex operations and use things, they re not blowing the russians out of the sky or depriving the russians of the ability to fly. they can still fly, but they cannot sustain operations over battle areas. they have contested air supremacy, they re contested air supremacy, they re wearing contested air supremacy, they re wearing the russian air force down through losses and spend extraordinary success than would be without going into it. by people civil wars in its second stage they re concentrating on the east. why did they hit lviv? because they re focusing on the east and what it means is the first strategy failed. going for the east, there saying they lost the first part of the war and are going to try to do redefined it into something that they can do, take over the parts very close to russia. it would still want to hit strategic targets in the west, and because what ukrainians