our political views, so as a liberal party we are still standing for our liberal values and discuss them with all the arguments, with our partners in the parliament. however, i still think critically important for our country that parliament will be showing the consensus every single time we are at the sitting. kira, the ukrainian ambassador was on meet the press today making the same point that your president has been making, that ukraine does not need u.s. boots on the ground, but does need unlimited supply of weapons from the u.s.. will that be enough, weapons supplies for ukrainians to continue to hold off the ongoing russian assault on your country? well, this depends on what is the goal. if the goal is to continue the war, then yes, everything we need is unlimited supplies. keep we will stand up. we will fight russians, and we
will be pushing them back. they will be pushing us forward. we are fighting against winds of the largest armies in the world. however, if we need to win this war, and we as ukrainians need to win this war, and we need something more than just a limited supplies. we need fighter jets. we need air force protection. we need an s-300. continuously asking for, we need to protect our skies. the issue that we have seen right now is that russia is doing very poorly on the ground. this is they are doing very well here. this is why they re able to destroy our cities and this is why they re able to keep us in a constant threat of destruction. in you said a moment ago, very passionately that ukraine will and needs to win this war. reuters is reporting today that president zelenskyy told russian journalists that he may
presidency of the council of the eu during, we as the presidency have convene meetings of the european union. and this war, the comeback of war to europe, it years after world war ii has obliged you have to look at things quite differently. to transform itself, and one of these transformations is the decision to become independent. independent for in particular from energy supply coming from. russia and we are doing that. we ve taken measures already. we want to be independent from supplies of energy coming from russia. president biden said yesterday in what is meant to be an ad lib remark. for god sakes that this man cannot remain in power. today the president said that he was not calling for a regime change. but is it the view of the french government that putin cannot remain in power?
a dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never erase the people s love for liberty. brutality will never drag down the world to be free. ukraine will never be victory for russia. for free people refused to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. hope and light, democracy. decency, dignity, freedom, possibilities. joining me now, an expert panel, jason stanley, professor of philosophy at yale university and author of how fascism works. the history professor at new york university. her book is called strongmen, mussolini to the present. former u.s. ambassador to china and former governor of washington. thank you all for joining me this evening. jason, let me start with you. is it fair to frame the russia
with all the weapons, including in the air, including airplanes. everything to stop this brutal destruction. i mean, if you look at everything that happens, use of bombs, use of missiles, use of prohibited by the dvina convention, weapons everywhere. mariupol and others, we need, you know, unstoppable flow of supplies from everyone who is willing to give it to us in order to win. that was ambassador oksana markarova of ukraine this morning on meet the press. she expressed her gratitude for president biden s speech in support of ukraine, but you made it clear that she is hoping for more than words of support from the americans. meanwhile, speaking to russian journalist today according to reuters, ukrainian president laura meir zelenskyy says he was prepared to discuss security guarantees and strategies, non-nuclear we are ready to go for it. joining me now, member of the