reports say russian fighter jets dropped what appeared to be five bombs on that city. and meanwhile, ukraine s former president speaking to cnn made an extraordinary suggestion for president biden. listen to what poroshenko told my colleague jim acosta this afternoon. i know that president biden plan to go to visit europe next week. and i think that he analyze the possibility [ inaudible ]. biden, very good friend of mine, very good friend of ukraine. joe biden. the leader of the global world who demonstrate now the leadership. why don t he come visit kyiv next week? our senior international correspondent sam kiley joins me now live from kyiv. so, sam, kyiv obviously a critical stronghold. what is the latest there?
possibility to visit poland. why don t very good friend of mine, very good friend of ukraine, joe biden, leader of the global world who demonstrates now the leadership, why don t he come visit kyiv next week? barbara, what s the administration saying about this? i can t imagine that kind of a visit would go over all that well at the pentagon? reporter: look, the white house press secretary jen psaki and others are making it very clear when the president goes to europe in the coming days, no indication, no plan. look, he is not going to go to ukrai ukraine. that is every message the pentagon is delivering. remember, of course, people might recall previous presidents have gone to war zones. afghanistan and iraq. very dangerous for them. but a big difference in those cases.
demonstrate now the leadership, why don t he come visit kyiv next week? well, that was petro poroshenko. and we re learning new details about a call between russian president vladimir putin and turkey s president on thursday. according to turkish officials, mr. putin laid out a specific set of demands for a peace deal in ukraine. those are his demands. turkey also offered to host negotiations between the russian and ukrainian presidents. for more let s bring in cnn s jomana karadsheh in is tan bul. what do we know about russian president, who decided to invade this country unprovoked, asked for in that call with president erdogan? reporter: look, hala, to put this into context, turkey has really been pushing for this diplomatic path, for talks between the two leaders for quite some time now. turkey s really trying to use its position, this very unique position as a key member of nato
ukraine. you may remember yesterday i spoke to some ukrainians living abroad who traveled back to the war zone to help the resistance effort. one of them is working in and around mykolaiv. we called him. he s doing okay. thankfully. as you can see there, it s an incredibly violent situation there in that particular key city. a former ukrainian leader is calling on u.s. president joe biden to show solidarity with ukraine by coming to visit the country. former president petro poroshenko made the appeal in an interview with cnn. i know that president biden plans to go to visit europe next week. and i think that he analyzing the possibility of visiting why don t very good friend of mine, very good friend of ukraine, joe biden, the leader of the global world, who
about a leader who has done away with the entire opposition and createds a one-party state and now started a war on the basis of his belief that some cleansing act of violence will restore racial unity. where you start with denazification in the story. nevertheless, when you hear mr. putin using that word, you should realize he has a purpose using that word. the purpose aside from confusing us, which has largely failed i think, define a mission that goes deep into ukrainian society. because since, as you say, there aren t nazi in the ukrainian government, mr. putin basically means anybody who s a ukrainian, anybody resisting, he has the right to call a nazi. so long as ukrainians are resisting he can say i m doing an anti-denazification campaign. an open license for him to continue the war until everybody submits. it s horrid and grotesque but that s the part we have to take