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is retribution, one ukrainian official telling cnn putin came to kill our children, women and civilians and this is our gift in return to him. back to you. matthew, to think that ship that you were on is now at the bottom of the black sea, what a development. i also understand you have some reporting tonight on a russian oligarch arrested in ukraine, what more are you learning about that. yeah, this is victor medvechuk, said to be putin s man in ukraine, a leader of a pro-russian opposition party in the country. you can see him there in military fatigues, he was under house arrest before the war, escaped from house arrest when the war began, has been sort of thoughts he had gone back, gone to russia, but he s there, been captured, he s in handcuffs and facing treason charges in ukraine. spoke to his lawyer earlier on today and various other people associated with him and they said look, he s innocent. putin s invasion of ukraine is not evidence against him. his wife has also issued
be a provocation, we should help ukraine move to the west, be free, and putting them in nato would be overly provocative. there was concern. there was real concern at the time, but obviously finland, sweden, moving in that direction very positive and now we just need to figure out as this war drones on and hopefully moves toward a conclusion at some point, what security guarantees we can give ukraine. they are going to be west. they are going to become more european. and a member of the eu. they are going to become a member of the eu, the question is what does that security agreement look like. maybe it s not nato in name, but it s not name only. in every other way, i suspect the united states and nato is going to do everything they can to guarantee their security for decades to come. meanwhile, president zelenskyy is offering a prisoner swap to president putin. he s offering to hand over this man, victor medvechuk, a
pro-kremlin politician, and long time ally of vladimir putin who was arrested in ukraine earlier this week. zelenskyy has said he s willing to trade him for ukrainian pows in russian hands. we get this report from national correspondent gabe gutierrez, amid the after math of a kindergarten destroyed by russian soldiers just outside kyiv. this is a kindergarten. it s a suburb just west of kyiv, about 45 miles west, and this is what used to be a classroom, where students here would learn music. you can see the piano still over here. this building would shell at least twice, and we just spoke with the teacher here who was devastated. luckily, though, there were no children inside at the time. they had been told to evacuate as soon as this war began, but