tide on the battlefield in ukraine. and now we are looking for answers how the classified documents moved around mar-a-lago, and what delayed the discovery. it seemed like all was lost a year ago as russian tanks moved across ukraine and moved in on kyiv. but the out numbered and out gunned ukrainians stunned everyone. they stunned the world. and kyiv still stands today as putin s bloody invasion continues. the cost has been great. the ukrainian people have suffered unimaginable at trosities. and it has killed hundreds of children and thousands of refugees have fled and thousands of suspected war crimes have been reported.
together. many have come back to ukraine because of how well the military has done. there are cities in ukraine like kyiv and odessa, where you can live a relatively normal live. you can go to work and you can go to school. but there is the constant reminder of the war with the air raid sirens and constant fear of a missile or drone attack. guys when you move farther east to the frontline, it s impossible to overstate the level of destruction. town after town, and village after village, that have been absolutely destroyed. they are largely quiet except for the large boom that pierces the silence. they are largely empty except for a lot of old people that stayed behind because they can t or won t leave. and of course there is an immense level of pride with the ukrainian people and the strength of the military. and there is also a lot of anger and sadness about what has
in the first few days and weeks, it was all about stingers and javelins. right? the stingers knock out russian helicopters, advancing on kyiv or trying to advance on kyiv, and those airports. but also the javelin antitank missiles. they were moving in a mechanized set of columns toward kyiv down from the south out of belarus, and the ukrainians really wanted those anti-tank missiles. they were quite effective with it, knocking out columns, lead vehicles, and knocking out one or two in the middle of the column. then as, to ali s point, as mr. putin realized he was not going to get kyiv and kharkiv, he withdrew all of his troops to the north into belarus, and refocused his efforts in the east. then it became an issue of long range fires, what we call long range fires. artillery, the ability of having the ukrainians strike russian lines, well deep inside and give them some stand off distance, and that s when we started
12 months, describing it as russia s special military operation. i think what you are seeing there is the same justification, but a shift in that. for almost two hours president putin spoke, and he didn t often talk about particular victories or trying to launch another push on kyiv, for example, as some people feared he might do in the months ahead. instead, he framed this as an idealogical battle. in poland you have two presidents battling across the international territory over two different ideas. president biden, of course, talking about this as a war for democracy. president putin talking about this as an existential war to
losses. ukraine. it is unable to take heavy losses, unlike, at the moment, russia losses, unlike, at the moment, russia. president zelensky is both trying russia. president zelensky is both trying to russia. president zelensky is both trying to secure more support through trying to secure more support through more lethal weapons, but also trying to speed up the procurement process. it is a never ending procurement process. it is a never ending diplomatic treadmill that he is on ending diplomatic treadmill that he is on and ending diplomatic treadmill that he is on. and today is yet another big moment is on. and today is yet another big moment on is on. and today is yet another big moment on kyiv s calendar. let s moment on kyiv s calendar. let s brint in moment on kyiv s calendar. let s bring in a moment on kyiv s calendar. let s bring in a few moment on kyiv s calendar. let s bring in a few more moment on kyiv s calendar. let s bring in a few more lines - moment o