and that s why it was so important to them to play this role between iran, and saudi arabia. and would be important to them to do this now. and of course the united states not only doesn t want to give up its position on that, but it also is suspicious that china is not the neutral player it pretends to be. that s what the chinese say about the united states. all interesting optics for vladimir putin, especially after just visiting mariupol, going to the war zone, david. what do you make of that? it is. i mean, he was doing two or three things there, don. the first is he wanted to say, this is my territory now. you know, this is an area that obviously they not only bombed and destroyed, but it s an area where they kidnapped many of those children for whom he was indicted by the international criminal court because something he was saying is the indictment means nothing to me. in fact, they ll continue with
the day before in the southern city of mariupol, a maternity ward is destroyed by russian bombing. you can see those women stumbling out, heavily pregnant, some having just given birth. you can hear the sounds of children and babies crying. you can see they re all cut up from the enormous destruction. this pregnant woman later dies from her injuries. her baby dies as well. a week later in mariupol, a theater clearly marked as a shelter for children is also bombed. according to local officials, about 300 people are killed. i cannot imagine anything worse than what happened in mar mariupol. we are innocent people, innocent
what they have done in bucha in mariupol! in mariupol, it s awful, and now i am ready to fight. in o the children know by heart the names of places where atrocities have been committed. this is my neighbor. ah. you know, these old ladies, what they do, they take care of the small gardens. outside, the sun is shining. it is a beautiful day. what will you tell darina about this time? well, i will tell her that she was such a powerful warrior of life. we didn t plan her with my husband. this was a complete she was a surprise. moreover, we discovered her when i was already two months pregnant. oh, wow. now i m not only a mother of
before we say good-bye. okay. thank you so much. thank you so much. it was a pleasure. yeah. really to meet you. i hope we will have better reasons to meet in the future. i hope we meet in happier days. thank you, anderson. thank you. thank you, anderson. the war grinds on. ukrainian troops at the azovstal steel plant in mariupol continue to fight. in an underground bunker, they sing. it s sweeter for us to die in battle than to live in chains. green things that serhiy has on his arm, this is the sign of
children who were killed by russians. and now this drama theater where hundreds of people were hiding with kids, and the big super bomb, they just dropped it on the theater. near the theater, there was big letters, it was written children in russian language. when this comes to the end, i promise to come to mariupol and make many videos about mariupol, about these people. we should not forget. we should not forgive. never. in irpin, a suburb of kyiv about 16 miles from olena, russian and ukrainian troops are fighting block by block. tens of thousands of residents are trying to escape near a destroyed bridge. there has been a steady barrage of artillery since we