ali velshi filling in live from ukraine, starts right now. hi, ali. hi, joy. thank, you my friend. have a good. evening j good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. any moment now are expecting air force one to land with joe biden s planned visit to ukraine and the surprise visit to a. close here in kyiv there is a heavy feeling vetting zion-y air as the world waits and watches now to see how russian president vladimir putin will respond to ukraine s show of strength this week. today putin held a captive audience rally to celebrate the one year anniversary of his invasion, when your anniversary will be on friday. but this happened in a massive moscow stadium, the site of the 2018 world cup. the propaganda event which began with the performance of the russian singer gregory laps, who has faced allegations of ties to the mafia and who until earlier this month was on the u.s. sanctions list. it also featured a grim start involving a number of children the russia claims it rescue
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people in the white house. the national security adviser, the chief of staff, maybe one or two people from the communications team planning this together. essentially and secret because of the security risks, and because people knew about it and it would risk the ability of the president to go. all of these, certainly the air sirens were not certainly something that they could ve predicted a plan for, but every moment of that is planned. there were schedules, intricate moment by moment details. really sending the message of that solidarity, the people of ukraine, and then the sequencing of it, of the trip to ukraine and then to poland. that s the part that makes it easier to keep the trick secret, but also poland has played such a pivotal role here, welcoming refugees, being the go-between, where they were receiving military equipment, military and essential resources for the ukrainian people. and really to lift up and showcase the role that they have played is the second step in this
it s really important. it would be very difficult to go nose to nose with the russian air force, plane to plane. the russians have fourth and fifth generation fighter bombers in their inventory, while the ukrainians have 800, something like that. and so to get 4 to 500 fighter bombers in their, in the next weeks and months, it s a really high bar to do, and i m not sure if that s actually feasible and achievable in the near future in. the long term, maybe that s something that you might want to consider. you ve now watched joe biden dick plane has been accompanied briefly to his car, but the problem is and he s going to get right on to plane one now, and head back to the white house. this is the conclusion of a very important trip which we will talk about, the importance of that trip, actually seeing an uptick in joe biden s popularity which began at the beginning of the war, and then that gain was eliminated. at this point, joe biden has shown himself in this last night just wee
unanswered is where are we going, and how do we get there? we are watching marine one waiting to depart for the white house. i want to talk about the statecraft of this thing. it was remarkable. you can see it from where i was standing on this balcony in st. michael s cathedral behind me. you can see those two presidents walking out on cue, an air raid sirens going off. these guys did not flinch. they kept on going. there is actually some expectation that they would get into a car at that point and that would be the end of the trip, that would ve been fined. they did not. they went and continued on with their plan. then the president goes to poland, and there is walkout music. it felt like a rally, it felt like a pep rally for nato. tell me a little bit about the stagecraft, and what was meant to happen there. what s happening behind the scenes leading up to moments that you just described, ali, it s a very small group of