ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity is unprovoked, an attack on ukraine s status as a u.n. member state. reporter: while russia was kicked out of the g.-eight nearly a decade ago, it s got a seat on the u.n. security council and retains veto power. president zelensky addressed his nation at 2:00 a.m. eastern time. we re on our land. we re not afraid of anything or anyone. we don t owe anything to anyone. we won t give away anything to anyone. we re confident in this. it is not february 2014 but february 2022. reporter: february 2014, reference to the russian invasion crimea eight years ago sunday. 58 nations abstained from
western ukraine with the very latest, hello, lucas. lucas: hello, mike, moments ago we heard that swiss air holds cancel flights between tomorrow and end of the month over fears of russian invasion. as you mentioned belarus has said they will extend russian forces inside its country. the joint military exercises were supposed to end today, here is belarus defense minister confirming the news. first of all, the steps are aimed to prevent war, our president said it more than once during meetings, we don t want war but they either don t hear us or don t want to hear us. lucas: that was a big fear in the west. 30,000 russian forces in belarus would say. recall invasion crimea during
crimea so many years ago. now some lawmakers are saying that his mental capacity is declining. is this the the same putin that invaded crimea? what can you tell us based on your experience with crimea? first of all, the putin invasion crimea before my if presidency. during my presidency he invade e in donbas, and i am proud that me as a commander in chief of ukrainian armed forces released the russian troops two this thirds of two-thirds of the occupied donbas including mariupol, many, many others. and with this situation i think putin is definitely going worse and worse. my first meeting with him was in 2004, that was one putin. in 2014 that was another putin and now, please believe, his mental capacity is completely different, and i think that he is a mad person. and i think that the danger for