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territory, defend ukraine, and make sure that russia does not advance any further. now, the real headline come out this news conference is what is said on domestic issues and support carving out a change of the filibuster in order to codify roe v. wade and it goes to show how much domestic issues have hovered over this entire trip, the majority of the questions he did face today were about matters back home. but general, staying on this topic for the moment, the idea of this war in ukraine, we heard conflicting reports about a time line. president zelenskyy has been telling u.s. advisers that he wanted to get this war over by winter and he s afraid they will be entrenched and that much hard tore drive back next spring. but western allies aren t sure that is possible. is what is your assessment and if this war does drag into 2023 in the spring, how much harder is it to keep this alliance
winter, can he do anything to make that happen? look, if you have been through a winter in that part of the world it s darn hard to get through a winter let alone have your country s infrastructure completely mashed up and have to suffer through a winter. we all saw what happened in mariupol and how hard it was coming out of winter and where we are. of course he wants it, of course he wants it also because the russians have the missile firepower, they can continue to pulverize the country where the land battle, the combat on the ground becomes less meaningful. of course the winter is going to create a scenario that s much more difficult for him. russia now controls severodonetsk in the east, they control much if not most of the eastern part of that country. do you think and we don t have the full read out on what zelenskyy said, do you think there is a window for zelenskyy to be saying he s willing to negotiate some kind of ceasefire that would include conceding russian control o
here say is that they can only continue to support ukraine is on those that domestic audiences at home will support it. let s get more from our diplomatic correspondent. day two of the g7 summit, the leaders gathered to discuss the war in ukraine, how to step up their support for kyiv, how to reduce the impact on the global economy. but look who joined them up on the screen on the left. president zelensky. notjust addressing the leaders but taking part in the discussion. ukraine s leader said he wanted a war over by the end of the year before the winter set in. according to eu sources he also asked for more anti aircraft systems, more sanctions on russia and greater security guarantees.