- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. i m jim acosta in the cnn newsroom. ukraine is entering the brutal fight against russia as the troops rolled across the border into ukrainian cities. many, especially those in russia, thought it would be swift and ukraine would fall quickly. but ukraine had other plans. they have surprised the world with its strength and determination. that defiance has come at a heavy price as it is estimated at least 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed since the war began. many wonder how long kyiv can continue to hold on in the face of so much russian aggression. days after his historic visit to ukraine, president joe biden spoke with abc news about how he sees the war progressing at this point and what he thinks about the idea of a negotiated settlement. nothing about ukraine without ukraine west won t dictate to
as you know, i was a contributor to a major news network last year when i went in january to do an analysis of russian order of battle and the routes of invasion. i spent over a month in ukraine. i met with the senior battle commanders, who are now the task commanders in ukraine. i met many people there. i found an amazing country that defied everything we thought we knew about eastern europe. it turns out i knew people in ukraine who were graduates, and we knew the invasion was coming. we knew it was imminent. when it came, the ferocity of the russian attacks on civilians was just too much. i may not, i understood that this was the eastern wall of democracy. that russia was not attacking ukraine over nazis or zelenskyy. it was about not having democracy on the russian doorstep, and that he was trying