with the russian army going on to say that the war is becoming extremely, again, i don t know what the russian word for complicated is, but he said complicated. what do you make of what he s been saying and the signals he s been sending? he s been all over the map. he s obviously completely miscalculated from the very beginning. he has reacted as ukrainian has seized the strategic initiative as it launched counter offenses, won the battles of kiev and other northern cities, kharkiv, retook part of the area that is to the west of the nipro river in south and launched a very impressive counter offensive in the east. he s trade everything he can that will be domestically palatable to mobilize additional forces. it s not going well. they aren t training and equipping them adequately at all. he s in a very difficult
0 wednesday december 21. the story goes on. look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow. thanks for spending your time with us. we look forward to the news conference at the white house in short order. you ll see that as your world continues moments away. see you tomorrow. have a great evening. thanks from our people to your ordinary people, americans. i really appreciate. i think it s very difficult to understand what it means when we say appreciate. but you really have to feel it. thank you so much. look who dropped in the neighborhood. you re looking live at the white house where in about a half an hour or so, president biden and president zelensky will be holding a joint news conference, this is as he prepares to address members of congress with lawmakers poised now to approve another $45 billion in aid to ukraine. a lot of that tucked in to that $1.7 trillion dollar under the spending initiative. we have you covered in every way with everyone with jacqui heinrich at the wh
of which are under russian control. in poland thousands more refugees have been arriving, so far more than one and a half million ukrainians have fled their country. almost 5,000 people have been arrested in russia, as anti war protests spread across the country. the ukrainian authorities say towns north west of the capital kyiv are under relentless bombardment, with intense fighting between government and russian forces. the heaviest fighting is said to be focussed on suburbs just 25 kilometres north west of kiev, as russian troops
people have already fled ukraine. the us offers to help ease the fastest growing refugee crisis since the second world war. and anti war protests on the streets of russia more than a thousand people have been detained in 29 cities across russia, according to one monitoring group. the ukrainian authorities say towns north west of the capital kyiv are under relentless bombardment, with intense fighting between government and russian forces. the heaviest fighting is said to be focussed on suburbs just 25 kilometres north west of kiev. meanwhile, a new temporary ceasefire to evacuate thousands of civilians in the beseiged southern city of mariupol, appears
the ukrainian authorities say towns north west of the capital kyiv are under relentless bombardment, with intense fighting between government and russian forces. the heaviest fighting is said to be focussed on suburbs just 25 kilometres north west of kiev. meanwhile, a new temporary ceasefire to evacuate thousands of civilians in the beseiged southern city of mariupol, appears to have collapsed after just hours. this is the second day in a row it has failed. as we have been reporting, the deputy mayor of mariupol told us that there had been attempts to get people out of the city safely but they had been facing rocket attacks