necessarily seem as though it was having problems, but certainly it was losing altitude. it hit a nursery, a kindergarten. tragically one child die. apparently this happened around the time people were dropping their children off. there were several people injured and killed on the ground. the helicopters then hit that nursery, then fell forward and came and crashed down near the entrance to a residential building, where the chopper then apparently completely exploded. there was a few fire afterwards, as people are describing. all the people inside that chopper, all were killed. of course, we have to point out, this was the leadership of the interior ministry of ukraine. it was the interior minister himself, who is very close to volodymyr zelenskyy, also someone active here in politics in ukraine, and very active in the defense of this country as well. a lot of the units, like the national police are hugely active in the defense of ukraine. he was definitely a rising star alm
where all those people died in the apartment building. then he says this is a time crisis, and speed is of the essence right now. i think what he s doing, especially to the europeans and to the americans, is saying, you know, you talk a lot, and he refers to that. putin invades, and it takes weeks for the europeans to get it together to respond. the united states is slow as well. he says, there is no more time. speed is necessary for both decisions and action. action that he s talking about right now is more weapons that he feels are crucial for ukraine right now, not only to defend itself, but to push the russians back. so, it was a very, very interesting talk, kate. another thing i thought he was doing, he was saying russian society has to open its eyes. yo
whose lives could be on the line if putin invades. a unit of some 165 florida national guardsmen and women are there helping to train ukraine s military. a commander tells an outlet that if war breaks out, they are not allowed to go into battle. why not? they have no authority to do that. they are there to train. that would take an order from the president of the united states. harris: you can t shoot back? of course they can defend themselves. but to actually go into battle is what you were saying. listen, the policy of the united states is we won t put any troops in to a non-nato country to defend it. they are there to train and assist. i m confident we can get those troops out of there if there is
in is something that the national security adviser, jake sullivan, talked about here on friday. right before our eyes what we re seeing with russia, a new russian new russian forces have been arriving at the ukrainian border every day. as we said before, we re in the window when an invasion could begin at any time. we will not comment on intelligence information except to say that it could begin this week despite a lot of speculation that it would happen after the olympics. again, something that jake sullivan said here on friday. it s unclear which path russia will take. the u.s. is ready for any situation. president biden has made it clear on his call with president putin that if russian invades, the us with our allies and partners will decide decisively
question on this specific, then we ll move on. but on this specific of sanctions, are you seriously saying to me that if the united states were to pre empt any new move from putin and impose crippling sanctions now, you think vladimir putin would say, oh, you know what, i ve been rumbled here. i can t continue this confrontation. i m going to back off, all my troops are going home. joe biden, you win. you really think that would happen? i think sanctions for the cyber events that have happened and things that have already happened, but i do think to lay out what the sanctions would be once an invasion occurs. we didn t see the chancellor from germany yesterday when he came to washington to basically say, and i was waiting for him to say, if putin invades, we will shut down the nord stream ii pipeline. i didn t hear that from him. now the president, biden, said that. yeah. ..but not germany. but that, with all due respect,