has not gone to plan? no. i told you last time that i don t know the plan, so maybe it was planned this way. and, you know, russia is ready for peace and negotiations. the question is whom to negotiate with? zelensky is not a legitimate leader now and the west, it seems to be, doesn t want to have any serious negotiations. they instead want to continue the war. that s the problem. so, you know, unfortunately, we do what we can and what we should to stop nato expansion to russian borders. and it goes as planned so far. we stopped nato and we have our allies, as you noticed at the beginning, as planned. it goes as planned? it can t surely have been the plan to expend so much in terms of men and materiel to hold less territory inside ukraine today than the russian military held when we last spoke to each other at the end of march, 2022? that makes no sense whatsoever. it clearly has gone very wrong? well, you know, ithink we should divide here two different terms strategic and
on this monday night. good a thing, i m alison menendez in for stephanie ruhle. ukraine has now been fighting russia s unprovoked invasion for nearly three months. today, vladimir putin was trying to defend his war, this was victory day in russia, when the nation celebrates victory over nazi germany. it is russia s biggest holiday, and during today s observance, is putin tried to justify the war, with false claims of nazis and ukraine, and so-called aggression towards russia. amid the images of troops marching information, and the military hardware on display, putin did not declare a new offensive in ukraine, i did not declare victory. we he offered up his own message to the kremlin we today, a senior u.s. defense official called russian efforts on the battlefield, incremental and somewhat anemic, despite, that rich russia continues to hammer ukraine with airstrikes, this weekend being used as a shelter. 60 were said to be killed, msnbc s news says the biden tonight
a commander barricaded inside that plant says that russia has violated a truce pledge and did not allow civilians to evacuate. hundreds including dozens of children remain trapped there. among them as well, ukrainian soldiers, desperately fighting for their lives. they have been there for weeks now in that basement. earlier new strikes on civilian infrastructure in ukraine, incredible new video shows the moment a bridge in the city of dnipro was hit. you saw the explosion there. and in kramatorsk, also in the east, the first russian air strikes in a month have devastated a residential area. that is a consistent thing we have seen in this war, deliberate attacks on civilian targets. at least 25 people wounded in this attack, six taken to the hospital. several buildings including a school and kindergarten severely damaged. those are not military targets. let s begin this morning with cnn international correspondent scott mclean, reporting from lviv in western ukraine. scott,
of putin s invasion of ukraine. my guest is zoltan kovacs, the orban government s international spokesperson. so, whose side is hungary on? zoltan kovacs, in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for being with you. well, thank you forjoining us. we have to start, i think, with the pressing matter of the eu and its latest round of sanctions that it intends to impose on russia. central to this is an oil embargo which will be phased in over time for all member states. hungary, it seems, would be given a little more time to stop using russian oil by the end of 2023. is that acceptable to your government? very shortly, no, it s not. because? the reasons are very simple and i believe we ve been clear about them for the past, not only weeks, but basically months by now. and that is, for us, it s the hungarian interest and that is the hungarian population s and the hungarian economy s perspectives are the most important. that s what we have received a fourth consecutive mandate f
critics are calling it a threat to free speech. we have a first amendment. they ought to abide by that you need ministry of truth against the government. it used to be called a free press. scores. and pittsburgh wins. it. ainsley: good morning, green bay, wisconsin. what a gorgeous shot. i don t say anyone out there. brian: snow. steve: cheese heads are in their beds. it s early there. brian: ranger fans probably still have a headache. trip pell overtime loss regulation but they called it back. steve: welcome aboard, folks. it is the middle of the week and so much news is going on. man o man. ainsley: we have to start in l.a. last night dave chappelle is performing. we all love him and talk about his netflix series during the commercial breaks and followed his career. we all have. and he was attacked last night when he was on stage which everyone feared after the will smith oscar event this guy rushes up on stage and tackles him and dave chappelle is asking fo