week before our extraordinary nato summit in brussels. germany is at the heart of europe. and at the heart of the transatlantic alliance. it is even more important now at this defining moment for european security. president putin s war against ukraine has shattered shocked the world. we pay tribute to the brave ukrainian people and their armed forces. their courage and determination are an inspiration to us all. we continue to help them uphold the right to self defence, enshrined in the un charter. i commend germany for providing ukraine with many different types of support. military, financial and humanitarian. you have already
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emotional speech but also critical. he slammed german businesses, some of whom he said are still doing business in russia and he said germany had been too hesitant at the beginning. before the invasion germany refused to support ukraine militarily, that changed after the invasion pretty quickly. more radically than most people expected. president zelensky said that ukraine had been warning for a while that the very controversial russian german pipeline nord stream 2 had been, he said, cement for the new wall that s being built. and now today even german hesitancy for eu membership was another brick in the wall. so, an emotional speech, membership was another brick in the wall. so, an emotionalspeech, he thanked germany but was also critical, saying germany was still being too hesitant and he wanted more support, including he mentioned in passing a no fly zone which generally doesn t support, saying
fast enough- now in ukraine, it is not enough or fast enouth. g , ,, ., , , fast enough. and jens stoltenberg is also holdint fast enough. and jens stoltenberg is also holding talks fast enough. and jens stoltenberg is also holding talks with fast enough. and jens stoltenberg is also holding talks with chancellor i also holding talks with chancellor 0laf scholz, do we know what has come out of that meeting? that olaf scholz, do we know what has come out of that meeting? that is ritht, come out of that meeting? that is right. they come out of that meeting? that is right. they have come out of that meeting? that is right, they have been come out of that meeting? that is right, they have been talking i come out of that meeting? that is| right, they have been talking about more german supplies, military supplies, for ukraine. this again is a tough topic really in germany, because traditionally germany tries to rely on dialogue and cooperation with russia rather than military s
what volodymyr zelenskyy had to say during an interview on sunday. translator: we won t sit down at the table at all if all we talk about some demilitarization or some denazification. for me, these are absolutely incomprehensible things. susan glasser is a cnn global affairs analyst and joins us now. good to see you, susan. good to see you. thank you. so i want to start with the zelenskyy interview. ukraine s president gave this 90-minute zoom interview to four russian journalists. the kremlin squashed it. how extraordinary is it the way the kremlin is not only pushing its own propaganda, it s censors anything that doesn t support their narrative? yeah, that s right. the iron curtain has fully descended on putin s russia, and with such speed i think that it s still taken us aback. but, you know, you have the