by trade from poland the secretary did not leave the palace. we saw boris johnson, the british prime minister going on a walk in central kyiv, shaking hands with ukrainian civilians. that was not the case for the american civilians. this was all business for several hours. secretary blinken said the bottom line here is that a sovereign ukraine will be around a whole lot longer than vladimir putin. , and he said at this point, two months into this war, ukraine is succeeding. russia is failing. russia is failing to decapitate the ukrainian government. they are failing to make significant in vance is in the east. they are failing to cut this country into pieces to try divided s russian speakers and to try and put east against the west. this is a country, as we ve seen over the last few weeks, very united, very determined to
remain a sovereign country, democratic country able of protecting its sovereign territory. we want to see russia weaken to the degree that it cannot do the kind of things that it has done in invading ukraine. it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability. we want to see the international community war united, especially nato. and we are seeing that. and, number one, president biden. but also our allies and partners who willingly leaned into this as we ve imposed sanctions. as we move very rapidly to demonstrate that we want to defend every inch of nato. i think he said it very well. mister secretary, were you