the weapons that the ukrainians are really focused on right now, that the chief of the ukranian armed forces walked through with us, our weapons, if they re not in american stocks, and many of them aren t, we re working very hard to acquire them, source them from other countries, get them delivered and into the hands of ukranian fighters. that s an ongoing process day by day, and the whole of the u.s. government under the direction of president biden is working overtime to make that happen as rapidly as possible, because we agree with the ukranian foreign minister time is of the essence and we are in a race against time and we intend to win that race. on the punishment front of the russians, 19 different countries this week expelled diplomats of one flavor or another. we have not. by some estimates there are some 400 russian diplomats circulating in this country. i know that there are some that are concerned that maybe these folks will be helping with a cyberattack or helping with
missiles, whether it is transparency, exercises, whether it is broader arms control measures, where if done on a reciprocal basis, there is the potential to enhance collective transatlantic and broader security. those are areas we ve been clear that we re willing to engage in dialog. we have been consistently transparent with all of you just as we have conveyed this clearly and consistently to the russian federation. let me ask this. is there going to be anything in there that russians aren t already aware of that are your positions? you will have to ask the russians when they see the response. it sounds as though there won t be anything in there that s a surprise which means that it s kind of, you know, a document that is kind of a dead letter, right? well, look if you re pointing to the fact that we have been very clear, both in public and in private, with the russian federation, with the russian federation and the strategic
this developing in moscow. where does that stand? yeah, hallie, we re seeing a crackdown on the streets and a crackdown online. on the streets, russian anti-war protesters are back out tonight in st. petersburg, despite that enormous wave of arrests last night. 1700 people arrested across 50 cities. one placard up in st. petersburg said peace for ukraine, freedom for us. now online, the russian prosecutor general has announced just in the last couple of hours they are planning to impose some form of censorship on facebook in this country. we just took a look at the nbc news in moscow. facebook is still online but we re still expecting various critical of the government media sites may find they are being censored. a lot of russians aren t on facebook, they are on an equivalent. this is coming as vladimir putin
if you go back and you look at a history of what happened in grozny it sounds identical to this. and you should recall that s how vladimir putin came to power. he helped restart a war in chechnya based on a false premise and then, again, bombed a country and the city of grozny into the ground. it is how he gained popularity and standing in russia to win an election. is this popular in russia right now? it seems like it, yeah. really? so we ve now seen about three polls that show that something like two-thirds of russians approve of this, and it is mostly older folks who remember who are from the soviet union, who still think of ukraine as something that is ours, that belongs to them. but you have to, you know, preface that with thinking about the informational sphere they live in. all of independent media has been basically rooted out in russia. if you look at what is being shown on tv, russians aren t
unfolds before you. the city of kharkiv is being purged of life. in near total blackout, the police in the country s second largest city take us on patrol. the russians aren t far. explosion. shelling happens every night. this close to the russian border, there s another threat here saboteurs. no one escapes scrutiny. alina, 76 years old, is lost and confused. in an instant, everybody s life here has been up ended. but this young nation has surprised russia and the world with its resolve.