ukraine stands and democracy stands. a vital message delivered by president joe biden today. made more significant when he delivered the words from kyiv itself. he walks side-by-side with president zelenskyy and the ukrainian capital. it s a moment filled with symbolism with an american president ineffectively a war zone with daily bombardment from russia s forces. two presidents who visit war zones like iraq or afghanistan. president biden delivered a message not just to president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people but to western allies as well as the russians. the message is that america the financial a military backer of ukraine is in it for the long haul. for you and all ukrainians, your mind the world every single day with the meaning of the word courage is. all sectors of your economy and all walks of life and it is astounding. astounding. it is priceless and worth fighting for for as long as it takes and that is how long we will be with you mr. president, for as long
. what do you think almost one year to the day from the beginning of the war when an american president is visiting kyiv ? i think the resolve of the ukrainian people was deeply underestimated by vladimir putin . when you look at ukrainian history, one should not underestimate their abilities. they went through harder times than anyone in eastern and central europe at the hands of stalin. the woman on the balcony who i hugged in poland, she went back and i met up with her the other day. i met her family and her parents and her sisters and we spent several hours together. as i left, my producer said to her, god be with you. her response was, may your skies be peaceful. inc. about that. may your skies be peaceful. we are standing in a city where an
sam, take us through this grain from ukraine initiative. reporter: well, i don t think it s any kind of coincidence at all that on the day that ukraine marks the h ooh lodomor, the stylist genocide of ukrainians in the 1930s in which millions were deliberately and systematically substantived, they re trying to get the movement to fund grain particularly where grain prices have shot through the roof as a result of russia s invasion of this country. this is something that is burned into the soul of ukrainians, the experience of the holodomor at the hands of stalin. it s something the german chancellor was keen to drive home when he talked about how hunger could not be used as a weapon of war again.