assembly will allow president zelenskyy to deliver a speech virtually during this year s summit. what do you expect him to say to his fellow world leaders? well, in fact, of course the most important message is to say that we have gained we have a lot of achievements in this war, right? first of all, putin has not issued his goals and we are independence country. we have our leader, you know, democratically elected, but on the other hand, even despite of successful counteroffensives, we need to continue this fight for the reason that around over 15, i think, percent of ukrainian territory is still under russian occupation. 1.2 million of ukrainians still stay there, and if we now stop, if we go into fatigue, this means that we actually can, you know, lose all those achievements and we cannot leave ukraine alone. he will definitely ask for help with weaponry and i m sure that
the u.n. general assembly where the war is set to be center stage. it comes as ukrainian forensic technicians say they have recovered hundreds of bodies from makeshift grave sites in the city of izyum. and president zelenskyy says they have found torture chambers in the region of kharkiv, a claim not verified by nbc news. meanwhile, a growing number of russian-backed separatists in eastern ukraine have announced plans to hold referendums pushing to join russia. joining us now is david ignatius, foreign columnist and associate editor at the washington post and an msnbc contributor. david, always great seeing you. a wz e learn more about these disturbing findings in ukraine, do you think anything of substance will come from them? i mean, the u.n. is gathering to talk about this. do you see anything coming from this? in terms of actual prosecution, jose, that s obviously going to wait for some kind of international tribunal, but certainly this latest
i think it is going to inspire a courageous act by custody, a 25-year-old woman with her entire future in front of her, should allow some older, more established white men to stand up and shoulder with fortitude. i hope they follow her example. in april, you argue that the january 6th insurrection was a signal to russian president putin to begin building up its forces on the ukrainian border. what do you make of what has happened since? to me it s absolutely clear that putin saw an opportunity in trump and trumpism. he saw an opportunity in trump that was like-minded in a republican party that was going to support putin, as opposed to the democratic the elected president of ukraine zelenskyy, any acted on that basis. of course putin was disastrously mistaken about who the american people were.