so you need an operation today. what followed was emergency surgery to fix a ruptured disc at the base of his spine. pete didn t know if he would ever walk again. the next morning, he was woken up by a nurse. she said, right, pete, let s see if you can stand up. so just for that couple of seconds between her saying that and me actually attempting it, again just terrifying. what happens if i don t stand up now? so i did stand up. and that was good. there start your hope. i can stand up. so i was better than i could have been. the worst outcome wasn t going to happen. pete was sent home with no guidance and no help. his back was fixed, but he had serious nerve damage in his legs. he admits there were very dark days. i wasn t able to work, i couldn t live my normal life. ifelt like i d lost me. ifelt like i was missing myself, if you know what i mean. it was, it was just
with the polish president. pelosi, fresh off a surprise visit to kyiv where she became the highest ranking u.s. official to meet with ukraine s president zelenskyy sin the war began. scott is live inside ukraine now. scott, good morning. what are the on again, off again efforts in mariupol? reporter: they are giving us precious little information. officials say they don t want to jeopardize the success of the operation which is ongoing. the ukrainian military commander inside the plant said there are 200 civilians including 20 children who need to come out. he said overnight there was intense bombardment of the plant that began after evacuation finished for the day. for a one-hour period of time overnight, it is not clear what impact that is going to have on the success of the operation
ways the alamo for ukraine encircle bid russian forces. what more do we know about this plan. is there any sense that the russians are going to go for it? jonathan, good morning. and at this hour, there is a glimmer, a glimmer of hope, for women and children, inside that steel plant, albeit a faint one. president zelenskyy s office is saying they are planning an operation today, to get civilians out of that field plant, according to reuters and not independently confirmed by nbc news, but that would be a big moment, if we were to see women and children coming out of that steel plant, after weeks and weeks of russian siege, and now the united nations has not confirmed anything but we know they did move a team down to zaporzhiazhia yesterday to be in place in case there was a window for an evacuation to go ahead. a couple of dashes of cold water on this. there is no official confirmation from the russians
coincidence. why do you think he did that? because he did not want the protest. he did not want the independent media criticizing him. before he launched this operation today. i was just on a radio station in russia tonight to go, it is called echo of moscow, one of the quasi-independent ones, and i was arguing with some of my colleagues that i knew, well i was like why do you not care about this? why is putin going to launch this war that is going to be bad for you, and they said michael, this is not 2014. that is when i was ambassador, i have not been back since because a lot of the sanctions, but it is 2022. it is too dangerous to protest today. so you listen, julia, to russian propaganda so we do not have to. i know you said talking points from american figures like tucker carlsen getting court braided. i want to get your reaction to something that he said tonight.
russians living abroad after the collapse of the soviet union. and to protect them, and bring them in. but let s leave the analogy, i do not want to suggest that putin it s handler, he is his own monster in his own way. i think that with julia said is very important. 2021 will go down as the most repressive year in post soviet russia. i am a professor, we analyze these things, we compare your two year, that is would happen. that is not a coincidence. why do you think he did that? because he did not want the protest. he did not want the independent media criticizing him. before he launched this operation today. i was just on a radio station in russia tonight to go, it is called echo of moscow, one of the quasi-independent ones, and i was arguing with some of my colleagues that i knew, well i was like why do you not care about this? why is putin going to launch this war that is going to be