as one of them said, mike, what are they going to do? if they take over the country, we have to negotiate with them. on the other hand, you have very mixed messages from moscow. the spokesperson for putin and, by the way, andrea, he s not just a spokesperson, he is very close to vladimir putin. he has been for many, many years, a quasi adviser, not just a spokesperson. he said we re prepared for talks, reacting to the zelenskyy comments and that got a lot of attention. and then you heard they re ready to send a delegation to minsk, though that doesn t seem like the best place to go for me. but then putin just got on tv and said we re not dealing with drug addicts. and remember, he said denaziification is one of his goals of the war and he considers the regime in power today to be neonazis and that
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meanwhile because he s using the language of denaziification or genocide he s also diluting or t trivalizing or perverting these concepts. another awful remark putin made and he s made so many has been ukraine as a sovereign nation shouldn t even exist at all. how dangerous is a statement like that? it goes back to your first question. that is straight out of hitler s play book to claim that the democratic neighboring state is some sort of art financial creation that doesn t deserve to exist. the whole basis of international law was that states recognize each other as states. who s big brother and who s a little brother. when you say that a state doesn t exist as he said, when you say a nation doesn t exist as he said what you re doing is
antiwar protests there once again. independent monitoring group says more than 4,600 protests have been detained in inside russia. now the ukrainian defense of the city has kept it from falling into russian hands so far. we report the civilian death toll is rising as russia repeatedly targets the city with rockets. and we must warn viewers some of the images are disturbing. reporter: putin needs it. he s having real trouble getting it. drive to the last ukrainian possession outside the port city. and you can see the mess made of the kremlin plans. even as the russian propaganda says it s from the denaziification they claim to be enacting is charged. occupants captured or dead. missiles on display.
significant resistance and more determination than i think they expected. and, by the way, this was always the question a lot of us had. with the ukrainians fight? will zelenskyy lead his country or will he do what others did? and we ve got answers to that. they will fight. by the way, it appears that the citizenry is determined to fight as well. it s forgotten but when we invaded iraq, i was a two-star general at that time, we were applauded. we were an army of liberation, for a period of time, which only has a half life of course and then you become an army of occupation. the russians will have no half life. they are already an army of occupation. it occurs to me you ve heard putin rerefer to denaziification.