because he wanted to do the right thing and you know, fight alongside the underdogs and help them with things that he thought was important. cancel s mother, rebecca cabrera, says her son was the one to stand up when everyone else stood back. everybody that he s come in contact with in his life said that they were proud to serve next to him, to be part of his life. and just everybody remember who he was. he was a hero and you know, he was doing the right thing. no matter how people feel about it. cancel s mother says he started working for a private military contractor shortly before the war. cancel agreed to go fight in ukraine. he arrived in a country still defending on multiple fronts in mid march. russian forces inching towards kyiv, carrying out more strikes on western ukraine.
so it s a real problem. and if in fact zelenskyy agrees to go, i know he s been invited, i suspect the administration has a couple of options. they could send a lower level delegation. they could participate remotely in an effort to demonstrate or president biden will go because if he doesn t, then the absence of trying to create an american narrative and tell an american story would be critically important. so it s going to be a tough call as we approach november. okay, i want to ask you about the release of american trevor reid in a prisoner swap deal with russia. thank goodness for his release, but still being held in a russian prison. bri brittney griner and paul wheeland. how does reed s release help leverage the state department s
mark hurtling this morning and he has doubts whether or not they are sufficiently in control of concentrating their forces. they have logistics and moral problems. so i think the future of a negotiation is going to be determined largely by events on the battlefield. it s just too soon to make a prediction. the trend lines however seem to be in favor of at least ukraine stopping or thwarting significant russian advances, but again, still early days. this upcoming g-20 summit in indonesia. russia invited to attend. he says yes, he wants to be there. how important will it be for america, the united states, and other countries to either boycott as long as putin is indeed in attendance or make some other statement? you know, the g-20 s in
in the east and civilians trapped in several areas and we continue to hear from the international community about talks about the potential of diplomacy with putin, but is it clear by now that diplomacy or negotiations just don t seem plausible? you know, negotiations based on the degree of urgency that both sides attach to reaching some sort of deal. i d tend to be more optimistic on the prospects of at some point an evacuation of civilians from mariupol even though we ve had so many false starts and it s an extraordinary human tragedy. the broader issue of negotiating with putin on ending the conflict i think simply is not in the cards. at least not for now. and as far as ukraine is concerned, they are now trained on and equipped by the world s finest military. particularly after the poor performance of the russians in the field. that is to say the united
journey was just beginning. in the chaos, she was picked up by soldiers she says spoke russian and eventually brought to a russian-held area in donetsk. i was taken there at night, she says. they took shrapel out of my ear. it was after this cnn learned about kyra s story because russia paraded it on state tv. state propaganda showed images of kyra in a donetsk hospital and said she was being treated well. convinced she was being mistreated, her family went public with her story and it worked. a deal between russia and ukrainian allowed her grandfather to travel to russia and bring her back to kyiv where she told us what russian state tv did not. it s a bad hospital there. the food there is bad. the nurses scream at you.