this historic fight. we hope that this year the 2023 will become a year of victory, this unprovoked and criminal, russia s waragainst ukraine and against the whole world. in other news, the family of nicola bulley describe their agony as police find a body in the river near the place she went missing. scotland s finance secretary, kate forbes, becomes the third candidate to enter the leadership contest to replace nicola sturgeon as first minister. bbc analysis shows that some of britain s local bus networks have been slashed by more than a third. and after a tour of the uk, dippy the dinosaurfinds a new home in coventry. good afternoon. welcome to the bbc news channel. us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first to ukraine since russia invaded almost a year ago. he met ukraine s president, volodmyr zelensky and both men visited a memorial for ukraine s war dead. at a news conference mr biden announced more military, political and financial support for
and in my own house. forsome, poland isjust a transit stop on a tired journey further west. there are free trains from here to hanover. and 0lga and her family have tickets. i ll never forget the scenes i saw in eastern ukraine at the very beginning of this war, when there were huge crowds at the train stations crushing to get onto evacuation trains. there was panic, there was absolute chaos. here now things are far calmer. but a year on, i d say the mood is less desperate. it s more depressed now. because ukraine s first refugees thought they d be home within weeks. now no one dares guess when the war they re still escaping will be over. sarah rainsford, bbc
his first to ukraine since russia invaded almost a year ago. he met ukraine s president volodmyr zelensky and both men visited a memorial for ukraine s war dead. at a news conference mr biden announced more military, political and financial support for kyiv and he said ukraine would be supported for as long as it takes . our correspondent james waterhouse reports form kyiv. in a city no stranger to big visitors, this was the biggest. the most powerful politician in the world, ukraine s biggest ally, arriving to the heart of a war, to the delight of his host. joe biden has been here before, but not as president. that is an important symbol for us, and we are proud of it. thank you very much for coming, mr president. i think it s my eighth trip, and much has changed. much has changed indeed. sirens wail. just listen to the sirens
of the united states visit. yes, i m sure that was on president biden s mind as much, even though he has shown that he s an american leader who likes to talk to his adversaries, whether they re the chinese president or the russian leader. but he s made it absolutely clear that even though american troops are not on the ground, even though this is a ukrainian war against russia, that the united states is leading an alliance of western nato military powers who will do everything that s necessary to defeat russia in this war in ukraine, this invasion, a violation of a united nations charter. so, yes, it does send a strong message to president putin, but it also does solidify president putin s view and his supporters, which say they re not fighting against ukraine, they re fighting against the west, including the united states. and that is what president putin says to his people. and he will use this visit to say, see, i told you so. it s notjust the ukrainians and that president zelensky,
hardware being promised and used. in a war which is costly and just about every sense, time is not ukraine s friend. this is a conflict which started in 2014. it s nearly a year since russia s full scale invasion. few expected kyiv would hold, let alone host america s commander in chief. james waterhouse, bbc news. let s cross live to kyiv and talk to our chief international correspondent lyse doucet. there have been some high profile visitors of late but could not get much better than president biden. you do not get much more powerful than presidentjoe biden and he emphasised that he was the first leader to speak with president zelensky when russian troops first rumbled over the border, when you