but kyiv is big and it s sprawling, and the defenders have many advantages, which they re using. prayers aren t all they have. problems for the russians include rivers notjust the mighty dnipro running through kyiv, but its tributaries and large areas of marshland that can hold up and bog down armies. at their headquarters, the generals running kyiv s defence invited us to their war room, and they sounded confident, like their president. they re tracking the two main russian thrusts from the east and from the north west which they say are being attacked and have barely moved. we ve heard a lot about this long russian convoy that was to the north west of the city. what s happened to that? he answered, that was a week ago. 0ur military hit it,
this is the nightmare for the city, more attacks like this. and, of course, they re vulnerable to missile strikes. but kyiv is big and it s sprawling, and the defenders have many advantages, which they re using. prayers aren t all they have. problems for the russians include rivers notjust the mighty dnipro running through kyiv, but its tributaries and large areas of marshland that can hold up and bog down armies. at their headquarters, the generals running kyiv s defence invited us to their war room, and they sounded confident, like their president. they re tracking the two main russian thrusts from the east and from the north west which they say are being attacked and have barely moved. we ve heard a lot about this russian, long russian convoy that was to the north west of the city. what s happened to that? he answered, that was a week ago. our military hit it, they moved a bit, but they never did
rivers notjust the mighty dnipro running through kyiv, but its tributaries and large areas of marshland that can hold up and bog down armies. at their headquarters, the generals running kyiv s defence invited us to their war room. and they sounded confident, like their president. they re tracking the two main russian thrusts from the east and from the north west which they say are being attacked and have barely moved. we ve heard a lot about this russian, long russian convoy that was to the north west of the city. what s happened to that? he answered, that was a week ago. our military hit it, they moved a bit, but they never did anything that we felt in kyiv. what do you think the russians actually want to do with this city? do they want to come into the city and conquer it,
and the defenders have many advantages, which they re using. problems for the russians include rivers notjust the mighty dnipro running through kyiv, but its tributaries and large areas of marshland that can hold up and bog down armies. when you see those pictures from mariupol, which goes to your mind? it is quitting extremely close. that was a district that i have lived in since 2009,15 minute dry from my home. that is extremely scary and it is getting extremely, extremely close. of course, the images from
president. we havejust got main diplomacy guy for the president. we have just got a readout from the chinese government, basically laying out the chinese position on ukraine. a lot of focus on humanitarian poker concerns, not a focus on the need for talks, not a focus on the need for talks, not just not a focus on the need for talks, notjust between ukraine and russia but also between nato, europe, and russia on the future european security architecture. so, for china, the main concern right now is a couple of things. first of all, the humanitarian crisis should dealt with, china is trying to prove to the us that it is doing its best to provide humanitarian assistance to the ukrainians. and also stressing its position that it is not something that china would like to say, this current situation, in a way to distance itself but from the claims we have seen that china is potentially providing arms to russia. the other concern for china,