preparations the president of the united states met with ukraine s president just four days short of year that russian forces invaded. with reminders that continuing threats quite literally sounding all around, the two leaders. many american presidents have made dramatic trips before, nixon to china, reagan to the berlin wall and president xi visited u.s. troops in war zones but never like this. this was the first trip ever by an american president into a worn zone without the protection of u.s. troops on the ground or american warplanes controlling the airspace overhead. american air assets were active on ukraine s border and moscow was told about it in advance. as for the presidents own message, here is some of what he had to say we know, it was one year ago this week. that we spoke on the telephone with the president. it was very late at night in washington, very early in the morning here in kyiv. russian planes were in the air and tanks were rolling across your border.
additional aftershocks. absolutely. i mean the emergency services here, the government has been warning people to stay away from buildings, there have been several aftershocks, we have felt several in the past few hours since we have been here. i mean anderson, hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of people right now who are living o in the open, living in makeshift shelters in tents and in the backs of their cars. people who have lost their family members and their loved ones, their homes and everything after that devastating earthquake. they were just starting to try and process what they have been through. trying to comprehend the loss. and this happened tonight. and i mean, we have been speaking with people who are just absolutely terrified right now. sleeping out in the open, we don t know what will happen to them. you can just imagine how they