president zelenskyy opened last fall. he said that is where the names of those who have stood in ukraine since russia invaded a near ago this friday. that is where the names of those who stood with them will be engraved. the president of poland is the first one to have his name engraved. he was there for the opening of the ceremony. now you see president biden and president zelenskyy there as president biden is making that trip to kyiv earlier he visited the official home of the ukrainian leader. he wrote a note in a guest book saying he was honored to be welcomed again in kyiv. the first trip since the invasion. his eighth trip to kyiv overall. he said to stand in solidarity and friendship with the freedom loving people of ukraine. alex is live on the ground this kyiv. you were there as president biden arrived before it was publicly known he was actually there. what does this mean for people who have stayed in ukraine during this war, who lived through this to see a u.s. president com
president biden delivered this message. my message to the people of ukraine is a message i delivered today to ukraine s foreign minister and defense minister who i believe are here tonight. we stand with you. period. similar message to what president biden said today as he was in kyiv. now nearly a year after that invasion. ukrainians still resisted russia s initial attempts to take control of the capital. the war is still entering a volatile new phase. the path to peace far from clear to anyone. here with me now to discuss this visit that president biden is making here, no the only to kyiv but also expected to stop here in warsaw is a top adviser to polish president duda and also poland s secretary of state and former deputy foreign minister. minister, thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with your reaction to president biden making this first trip to
the western support is not going anywhere either. yeah. incredibly symbolic trip. a ten hour train ride we should note that world leaders that have gone to kyiv have been taking. phil mattingly, thank you. we have a reporter in in kyiv on the ground. we watched all this unfold before publicly available information that president was actually on the ground. now that the president has left kyiv, he departed. he can go into the heart of of this war and of what is happening on the ground. and the significance of it happening one year almost to the date of the russian invasion. you know, i just spoke to a group of ukrainian women who had come theer here to take photographs. i said what is your resnaction
long-range missiles or those f-16 fighter jets that ukraine has asked for. do you think what president biden is sending ukraine right now, what the united states is sending is enough? well, the united states has already sent quite a lot of equipment. just like many other allies and partners, poland is one of the first was one of the first to send our tanks, our artillery systems. so, of course, we welcome very much this system to send additional equipment. the more western technologies and the better equipment ukraine has, the sooner we will bring back the peace and stability, and the end to this war. of course, we ve heard what other plans of the americans. as for now, the artillery system, the aircraft systems are very much needed. the munitions to those rockets, of course though those systems. this is what s very much needed now. of course, as diplomats, we will
and i want to ask you, i know you ve talked a lot to us. i really thank you for coming on at such a historic time. this is perhaps the first time a u.s. president has gone into a war zone. there are no u.s. troops on the ground. he went there to be very specific to show his support of ukraine saying for as long as it takes. what does that mean to you? well, the visit is indeed historic. and it brings us the most important thing that we need right now, the fuel that we re running on and the fuel is hope. it was a bold move. we ve been taking for a long time the tipping point in this war is not when we receive another set of weapons, but when our alliance will stop playing