on italian television, after being asked how russia could claim to be denazifying ukraine when president zelensky himself, isjewish. the european football governing body, uefa, has banned russia s national team and club sides from its competitions for next season. that extends the current ban, which affected this current season. uefa also said russia s bid to host the euro 2028 or the euro 2032 tournaments have also been declared in eligible. much more on the war in ukraine on our website. our live page is constantly being updated just log on to bbc.com/news or download the bbc app. still to come a bit later in the programme. the first of our special reports on how china s belt and road initiative is starting to shape the way some countries in europe are thinking
we have limited supplies and we re trying to share everything with civilians. joining me now is nbc news correspondent ali in lviv and ben rhodes. i ll start with you. these horrors just continue and continue and continue but now it appears that we re starting to see a strategy. this idea of basically land grabbing southern and eastern ukraine. is that what is being seen in practice? that s exactly right, joy. that goes to what president zelenskyy was saying and the ukrainian military leaders, as well. saying it s not about the denazifying ukraine. they wanted to expand the borders and not apparently just ukraine but seems to have his sights on moldova.
where he makes of these hyper exaggerated lines about the country being full of nazis, denazifying, referring to zelenskyy at the jugular. he doesn t know what to do. how he is maintain power has nothing to do with running the country, it has everything to do with ruling, and controlling, and abusing, and dominating. so being a diplomat, and being a person who is with the people like zelenskyy, is not probably and we are seeing that right now. in moscow, they are making the same point. that they were taken to the streets to protest. they always thought their guy was rational. he was the adult in the room. he was the one playing checkers this this does not make sense to the people of russia. thank you for being with us again, stay safe. it is tougher you are. we will continue to have touch with you. we will continue with a russian invasion of ukraine straight ahead.
i want you to hear from one of the participants at today s demonstration. one born in russia but raised in the united states. russian people as a whole have family everywhere. in ukraine and belarus and kazakhstan. this is impacting everyone both in russia, here, in ukraine, everyone has some connection to it so i think us speaking out against this brings an awareness about the issue. i hope they know we support them and don t support what he s doing and don t support what he s doing in the name of s russian people and denazifying. it s not denazification. it s horror. reporter: we ve also heard
worked allot better. the global far right. that s is coalessing and reuniting. they didn t care about the denazifying. they are getting sympathizers by claiming there is an anthony fauci lab in ukraine. thank you for being with us. let s bring in my political panel. former chair of the maryland democratic party. former candidate for maryland governor. and a former candidate for u.s. congress. and contributor for time magazine and a political analyst. mya, let me start with you. washington post reports that ukrainian president zelenskyy is considering to make concessions to russia in order to bring in an end to the devastating conflict. depending on the out come of this peace agreement, this causes concerns among western