choice but to go into ukraine because the government in kyiv was committing genocide against russian speaking populations in the east of the country. it is a baseless accusation but it is the justification time and again vladimir putin has given for this invasion. beyond that he has sought again and again to represent ukraine itself as a threat to russian security, we heard more on that from him today saying the regime in kyiv has in effect been nurturing neo nazis. it is a powerful narrative on tuesday a lot to justify this war, russians are told in terms which very much echo and bring back very long memories of the second world war, the great patriotic war as a quality, in which so many russians lost their lives fighting german nazi forces. that is used again and again to justify the
captured in the moments immediately after the blast. an obviously pregnant woman is stretchered from the site. another hurt, bleeding, walks out carrying what she can. russians often honor the bravery and determination shown by their own citizens who were beseieged by nazi forces. now russia is inflicting that same suffering on the people of mariupol. phil black, cnn, london. now a member of ukraine s parliament who grew up in mariupol. his parents are there now. i really appreciate your time. i know this is hard because your parents are there. i want to ask you about them. first, when you look at your city and the attacks that are happening there, that maternity hospital that was bombed by the russians, the russians saying that that s a completely orchestrated provocation, that they were provoked to bomb the
suffering, more destruction and more horrors as far as the eye can see. and this is one ukrainian mp describing conditions there. what they are doing and the factl that they are still keeping the city is quite unbelievable, and they are real heroes, those ukrainian - fighters who fight there. so, for how long will i they succeed to fight? it s hard to say because, every day, i it s clear that they are in blockade i and russians are bombing them so heavily. - they almost destroyed this entire city. - the president of poland has been strongly condemning the russian attacks. he compared them to those of nazi forces during world war ii. translation: my war ii. translation: my fellow countrymen are looking at
reporter: so, zelenskyy said a short while ago, according to a transcript i read that freedom must be armed and he s painted this war and ukrainians agree with him and i think many people around the world do as well. as a fight for democ aeracy. a fight for the ukrainian people s right to choose their own leaders and live as they wish. and he has said, including just today, that unless vladimir putin is stopped, he ll keep going and this is a fundamental battle between the forces of democracy and of tyranny and repression. and in order to defend democracy, he once again today said give me the weapons. give this country the weapons it s asking for. he put together a specific list. 1% of what he calculates to be nato s weapons stock pile. he wants 500 tanks. and use that number specifically.
memorial and seeing that what happened in 1941 by nazi forces and 100,000 civilians were killed by bullets and exactly years later, the case late aer, five days ago, rocket landed in exact same place and killing civilians again. this is holocaust by rockets, by russian rockets. our nation is getting just wiped off. that cannot happen. and i call all our allies and all the world to isolate russia economically because every trade with russia and every cent going to the budget of russia is going to be useful weapons against civilians as an example. is happening now. and all the destruction in ukraine is going and all the lives have been lost is going to