About the video president zelenskyy released, he said the enemy dreamed we would refuse to celebrate may 9 and the victory over nazism so de-nazification gets a chance here. zelenskyy tried to frame things, look, this is not just a battle on the ground, not just a battle in war, but it is also a battle of two different world views. listen. translator: this is not a war of two armies. this is a war of two world views. the war waged by bar bearians who shell the museum and believe the missiles can destroy our philosophy. it annoys them. it is unfamiliar to them. it scares them. its essence of free people who have their own path. today we are waging war on this path and we will not give anyone a single piece of our land. also very defiant message from president zelenskyy. and, michael, just for viewers
The attack. and fighting in the luhansk region has been raging for months, and it has ramped up in recent weeks as russia s refocused invasion on eastern ukraine. michael as you know with the atlantic council is with me the last hour or two hours, i ve lost time. s thank you, scott, for joining us. i want to get to president zelenskyy s message. we ve heard president putin s message. what is president zelenskyy saying? so much has been made of this may 9 victory celebrated on may 8 in the rest of europe. but because of the time difference on that date in 1945, the russians celebrated a day later. the russians have been framing this entire huwar as a battle against the nazification of ukraine. that s the way they re framing it. ukrainians feel that is a ridiculous premise. the thing that stood out to me
Support for a massive mobilization. so, perhaps at this point he feels the public would not accept it, but we don t know. this to me was kind of a, let s call it a place holder for where we are right now. but this is not the final statement by president putin, i think. it was really, you know, we are, we ve succeeded. there was something he said, you know, it was an inevitable conflict. russia repelled the threat. so at this point russia has, in his eyes, has protected itself, and now the battle continues. but there are a lot of loose ends in terms of where this goes. yeah. i mean, he did talk didn t talk about kyiv. he didn t talk about ukraine as a whole. he mentioned donbas in particular. as you noted there. and we have seen, which is coming in, we are seeing small pro russian events in kherson. i think we have footage of this
Apartment and raid that prevented another attack. and other detalils. he says now three terror suspects in custody, and they are working to identify them, and crucially, the french pros cue or the there saying that abaaoud the alleged ringleader, and salah abdeslam are not in custody. when they went into the apartment, they the believed that abaaoud abdelhamid might be inside of the apartment, but prosecutors say from what they know now, they do not have it confirmed that he is in custody. and so, now, you have a sense there describing the enormous resources that went into the raid. he said that 5,000 bullets were fired by french police in the course of it and as you played the video from the attack, itself, it sounded like a battle in war. we know that they had the e weapons of war including the