welcome back to our breaking news coverage. president biden is making a dangerous unannounced visit to kyiv in the middle of the war. good morning, everyone. i m poppy harlow in new york. kaitlan collins with special coverage anchoring from warsaw, poland. you re getting new reporting? yeah. we have just learned, poppy, that president biden has now left kyiv. of course, the question is whether is he going next? potentially it is here where i am in warsaw, poland. that was according to the last white house schedule where he was going to be making his first stop during this trip to europe. obviously, made that surprise unannounced shouted in secrecy visit to kyiv. the seventh visit eighth visit to ukraine but first since the invasion happened a year ago. of course, these trips are always sensitive for a president. but this one especially given he went into an active war zone. the reporters traveled with him had their phones taken from them before the plane took off. he only
there fwwere no promises made, possible weapons that could be supplied in the future. that is key issue for ukrainian authorities. they say we have got to get the long range artillery. we have to get fighter jets, for example. no sense that that will happen. really, this is an inflection point in this war where you see that it could quite easily evolve into a grinding stalemate with very high attrition rates on both sides. the fighting in the east has just been horrendous with massive casualties on the russian side, we know. but also really high casualties on the ukrainian side too. and that s why this visit is so crucial. it s given a much needed boom or boost, a much needed sort of injection of morale which has been a little low right now.
battlefield. they thought that all of this was going to end very quickly. we ve been talking so much about how people, you know, we re not sure at this time last year whether kyiv would still be standing a couple days later. the russians certainly thought that they would be doing a lot better than they actually have. so putin really gearing up the population here for what could be a very long and protracted war. it certainly something where we do believe that the visit by president biden today, we re already seeing it on russian media as well. that definitely is going to play into that as he tries to rally the russian nation, kaitlan. yeah. notable that they re already talking about this on russian state media. fred, thank you so much. just a remarkable moment here as we re seeing not just how world leaders are weighing in and supporting president biden and also the calculus this changes for the kremlin as well. yeah. this is a big deal for lack of a better smarter sentence. thank
hawkish. there are analysts out there already saying they expect this to be a fairly hawkish speech to begin w heith. he was going to rally the russian nation by his side and portray what is going on in ukraine as a larger war, conflict between russia and the west, between russia and nato. of course, specifically between russia and the united states. of course, president biden s visit today in kyiv is something that fuelled the flames a little more than it already has. so there are some people who believe that they might tweak putin s speech but in general, of course, this is going to be a very strong speech. i can tell you, kaitlan, i ve been speaking to people here in moscow who are involved in russian politics and analysts and media people as well. they re looking towards what putin is going to say. of course, here in russia as well, it is a really pivotal time also for them, for all the same reasons as it is in ukraine. things have not been going well for the russians on the
that is about the help for ukraine. and it s very important to give the signal and to give the information. we need much more tanks. we need more weapons. until today, sorry, it s not enough. did you speak with the secretary of state? actually, everyone understands how dangerous russia is right now. everyone understands ukraine need help. and everyone in the world see real face of russian aggression. it s not a war. it s terrorism. if russia destroys the villages, cities, kill citizens and actually very important to win this war. and we re more than sure.