people who are in distress here relative to these topics, it is huge. we do our best to take care of those folks in-house as well. and through our local partners it s so important. we are a year into this, as we said. do you worry about a lack of empathy from the outside world, that attention might be turned away? michael holmes, the generosity in sport we have seen so far from the international community here has been, frankly, humbling. i know there are competing catastrophes we are looking at. i want to acknowledge what the people of turkey and syria are going through right now as a result of their. but i will say that there has been a continuity of support relative to the ukraine crisis that he s moving and impressive. so, i hope that continues and the situation continues to unfold. matthew stearns, international medical corps. bank so much for the work that you and your colleagues are doing there in ukraine. it s valuable. thank you so much, michael. i m happ
sophia s, a highly symbolic part of kyiv, at the very heart of the foundation of not just ukrainian, but what was to become russia later on, that cathedral that he is speaking in front of, highly symbolic to both kyiv and of course vladimir putin himself. this is a speech about telling his country to hold firm and to make sure that this year is decisive, in favor of a victory, max. okay, melissa there in kyiv, thank you. nick roberson also looking at this extraordinary moment. you were in moscow, weren t you, when war broke out. no one could imagine that he would still be in power, speaking out in the open a year later. if you go back two days, before now, a year ago, most people in russia didn t believe that an invasion was going to happen. they thought that ukrainians were a brother nation. they didn t believe their leadership was going to do this. obviously they did, and i think people are still coming to terms
redone, i say just redone, when i was there, i visited when it was just refinished, and it is a spectacular work of art. the city of kyiv has just gorgeous buildings, the cathedrals, st. sophia s cathedral, ari, goes back to the tenth century. it s been redone a couple of times since then, but that is that s history, and that s ukrainian history. it s not russian history. in the tenth century when st. sophia s was built, moscow was a forest, ari. there was no moscow. there was no russia. this is ukraine. this is ukraine. and they are proud. you heard it in the minister, the minister is exactly right. i agree with him totally. ukraine is going to win, it s going to prevail in this conflict. yeah, go ahead, sir. i want to add to mr. ambassador is that ukrainian culture heritage is now under threat, the threat to bomb st. sophia as they ruined several