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obviously, the white house, as has been mentioned on the show, informed the russians before president biden went. there were some russian officials who criticized that, or some military bloggers who criticize that, but also, some russian officials who said that it showed that president biden needed security guarantees. one of them is dimitri medvedev, the former president of this country. i want to read you a quote from him. he said, quote, biden, having received security guarantees in advance, finally i went to kyiv, and here it is important to know that the west already delivers weapons and money to kyiv, quite regularly, a huge quantity allowing the military industrial complex of nato countries to earn money and steal weapons to sell to terrorists around the world. you can see some pretty harsh words there from the former russian president. but this is really a narrative that the kremlin has been putting out there, essentially saying, look, they are not only fighting against ukraine
with ukrainians meeting with zelenskyy today. what do you think of that? translator: they will be varying my son-in-law tomorrow. they will bring him in a coffin, cast be the war. [crying] the generalized occurs on the geopolitics that has led to private and personal misery for yet another ukrainian family there, wolf, but we also spoke to one man and he repeated the wider statement, the wider reaction to american international help. give us more weapons, this is what he said. what do you think of biden s visit to kyiv today, the american president is in kyiv visiting zelenskyy right now? [speaking non-english] translator: it is for the best. do you have a message for him? translator: what would i tell the american president? give us more weapons so we can now, of course, this area, wolf, is being pounded, as i
president biden s historic visit to ukraine. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joining us from moscow right now. fred, we are expecting to hear directly from putin tomorrow. what are you anticipating? hi there, wolf. one of the interesting things about today is that for the kremlin, we actually heard absolutely nothing about president biden s visit to kyiv. we thought that possibly, the kremlin would react, but it was absolutely nothing. and i think one of the reasons for that is that obviously, the russians are gearing up towards that vladimir putin speech, that is going to happen only about seven hours from now. and i can tell you from being on the ground here, there is a lot of people in russian politics who do believe that that s going to be a very important speech. and that is one that s probably gonna set the stage on how the russians continue what they call their special military operation. now, as far as president biden s visit, though, of course, it was ev