president biden met with some of the 2 million refugees seeking refuge from ukraine. the president was accompanied by the mayor of warsaw who is joining us now. and thank you very much for joining us. you ve been mayor for more than three years. what was president biden s message to the ukrainian refugees? you walked around with him at the soccer stadium earlier today. what did you hear? it was incredibly emotional because we ve heard some heartbreaking stories and the president was reassuring people that the united states will help ukraine with weapons and the people, also help the city of warsaw with a plan to relocate hundreds of thousands of ukrainians to the united states.
strong citizens. and it is logical that they would try to attack us more once again and again. but i will win. yes, no doubt. so as you can see, there is a bit of confidence here about those territorial defense forces. but they do understand that the gains made so far are fragile and of course there is still very dangerous army at the outskirts of the city. fred pleitgen for us from kyiv, thank you very much. and let s continue you re analysis, joining us, retired u.s. army general, author of pre-putin russia. and what about the white house today, the white house may be try doing some damage control. but president biden said that putin cannot remain in power. those words carrying an dwlee
we heard one quite recently that looks like a lot of smaller explosions which may have been some sort of smaller bombs that were exploding in quick succession. so it is an extremely active day to the northwest of the city. you have basically two major front lines, one toward the east and toward the northwest and that area in the northwest where it seems fighting is going on, we ve seep plumes of smoke throughout the entire day. and then we got the news that you were just talking about, that the mayor of irpin said this the district had been taken by the ukrainian military and that is a big deal because that is ve close to the actual gates of kyiv, to the city limits of kyiv and it is been a place that had a been heavily contested over the past couple of days. i would say over the past week and a half. and the mayor said they have about 80% and now they ve gotten all tv back but there is still fighting and there is still heavy shelling as well. the ukrainians are saying around
coast here or just right over the horizon. wo wolf. it s still a dangerous situation unfolding. ben wedeman, thank you very much the breaking news, president biden declaring that vladimir putin cannot remain in power. we ll have all the late-breaking developments on the invasion of you kravenlt we are live here from warsaw, poland, much more special coverage right after this. were delayed when the new kid totaled hihis truck. timber. fortunately, they were coverered by progressive, so it was a happy ending. for almost everyone.
appears to be in essence a russian victory at this point. that s because the city is a complete wasteland, completely destroyed by the russians, over 90% of the building are completely gone. this area right here in the south around kherson, that s an area the russians thought they could move in different directions, such as to the west and north of this. none of that is happening. it is at least at the present time. what we re dealing with here is putin has to figure out what he wants to do next. one of the possible things that he can do is divide the country as you have been speaking about earlier, and that would mean something like this. i would go over to russia and that would be a possible solution to what the russians are thinking, at least a temporary solution. but that is in a really short form thous form how the russians are looking at this. they are stalled out, but their goal remains the same, which is to topple the government in