ali velshi filling in live from ukraine, starts right now. hi, ali. hi, joy. thank, you my friend. have a good. evening j good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. any moment now are expecting air force one to land with joe biden s planned visit to ukraine and the surprise visit to a. close here in kyiv there is a heavy feeling vetting zion-y air as the world waits and watches now to see how russian president vladimir putin will respond to ukraine s show of strength this week. today putin held a captive audience rally to celebrate the one year anniversary of his invasion, when your anniversary will be on friday. but this happened in a massive moscow stadium, the site of the 2018 world cup. the propaganda event which began with the performance of the russian singer gregory laps, who has faced allegations of ties to the mafia and who until earlier this month was on the u.s. sanctions list. it also featured a grim start involving a number of children the russia claims it rescue
people in the white house. the national security adviser, the chief of staff, maybe one or two people from the communications team planning this together. essentially and secret because of the security risks, and because people knew about it and it would risk the ability of the president to go. all of these, certainly the air sirens were not certainly something that they could ve predicted a plan for, but every moment of that is planned. there were schedules, intricate moment by moment details. really sending the message of that solidarity, the people of ukraine, and then the sequencing of it, of the trip to ukraine and then to poland. that s the part that makes it easier to keep the trick secret, but also poland has played such a pivotal role here, welcoming refugees, being the go-between, where they were receiving military equipment, military and essential resources for the ukrainian people. and really to lift up and showcase the role that they have played is the second step in this
scenes leading up to moments that you just described, ali, it s a very small group of people in the white house. the national security adviser, the chief of staff, maybe one or two people from the communications team planning this together. essentially and secret because of the security risks, and because people knew about it and it would risk the ability of the president to go. all of these, certainly the air sirens were not certainly something that they could ve predicted a plan for, but every moment of that is planned. there were schedules, intricate moment by moment details. really sending the message of that solidarity, the people of ukraine, and then the sequencing of it, of the trip to ukraine and then to poland. that s the part that makes it easier to keep the trick secret, but also poland has played such a pivotal role here, welcoming refugees, being the go-between, where they were receiving military equipment, military and essential resources for the