you have not been able to tell that much during the last year because of the war, about the fact that this country has a rich and distinct culture? i was standing in between two great cathedrals. one cathedral is behind you, saint sophia of the 11th century. and this, one st. michael s cathedral, was ruined by the way, by bolsheviks insurgents, and was fully rebuilt. but this is the great square, it shows how rich the ukraine history is, and russia right now, they are robbing artifacts from museums, so they steal also our history, because ancient kyiv started from here the place where we are standing right now. and russians all the time or trying to take this on their behalf, the rich history of ukraine. but going back to the 30s, this has been a struggle for ukrainians. they have always felt that association with russia is meant to diminish the cultural heritage. vladimir putin said it on the night he declared the special military operation, that it is not a place of
they shot at everyone. you can see the trees yeah, in the trees, it s everywhere. on april, two, i came here as well, already in bucha self. and the first place, i was here on this square. and here i can show you photos, i have photos of my library. you was one car with a killed man inside. that was a man who worked in bucha for, like, park maintenance, and humor was trying to take wounded people to the hospital. and he transported several, then he again came back. he was killed right here by russians. there was a car with his buddy inside. and here was another car which he just smashed with a person inside. oh my gosh, there was a person inside? yeah, yeah, powerful. if you are pointing out the bullet tore holes in the trees, it looks normal. it looks normal, right. it looks like a suburban community. people going about their business. it s early morning now. you can see traffic is happening. explain that to me because when you are in kyiv it looks normal and
women told stories of being raped by russian soldiers. one of the first on the ground till the new cranium parliament appeared in my show that weekend. while he was still in bucha. earlier this week, nearly a year after russians first occupied bucha, i met up with him in that town. we took a short walk. he told me about the horrific scenes he saw along just one block in bucha. and how the town still bears the scars of war, and surprising the recovery has taken place since it was liberated. do you see this is from solids. this is from ballots, and these trees were all wounded from ballots. they were just firing in a chaotic way. see all, these this is the violence. and all these benches were destroyed, and these are new ones. shooter
last month, i forced a vote in the united states senate on sanctions on north dome ignored stream to, every single democrat had voted for the legislation twice previously but at the same time calling for filibuster a jim crow racist relic from the past, that same day they were filibustering to protect russia and putin and 44 democrats gave in to political pressure from the biden white house they voted in favor against russia can sanctions. the president of ukraine, the prime minister of ukraine and the u.k. cranium parliament said explicitly if you want to stop this impatient, sanctioned nor extreme to an joe biden becomint thing that ever happened tragically for vladimir putin. one of the things that volodymyr zelensky said over the beacon, phthalates keep telling us that russian invasion is 100% certain. so they say it is inevitable,