is amazing. cnn continues now. translator: a year ago on this day from the same place around 7:00 in the morning, i addressed to you with a brief statement, we are strong and we are ready for anything. we will defeat everyone. this is how it began february 24th, 2022. i think everyone will attest to this, it s surprising that we are still here in this war that ukraine is still hanging on and still fighting back. as we know vladimir putin thought, hey we go into ukraine and it will be done zip zip zip. that is not happening. that is what we are talking about as we mark this one year. good morning. ukraine stands defiant and unconquered on this anniversary. it s now entering the second year. what is next for russia after a year of heavy losses. we will be joined live from moscow. and china is now stepping up and taking a more active role. can beijing help to broker a peace deal or will they get involved more on russia s behalf. and we know now that the engineer tried
argument of the biden administration. we saw president biden visit kyiv and we saw him in poland and we saw some much in terms of a moving compelling case from the biden administration why it s so important to support ukraine. not just for ukraine to live through the conflict but democracy as a concept to live. and i think he will hit on that as we near the one year anniversary of the war. and in the american public there is a softening of continued support for ukraine and that is something that biden administration officials are keenly cognizant of. softening very good. we said dwindling but softening. what is next for vladimir putin. we are joined live in moscow again. good morning. it s one year. where does he see this going? reporter: that is a very good
ukraine and for president zelenskyy. a steady stream of european leaders have gone to kyiv over the past several weeks. there s prime minister boris johnson walking the streets of kyiv with the ukrainian president. also the european union officials, poland, slovakia and president zelenskyy hopes president biden will make the trip and the walk soon too. tomorrow we have people from the u.s. visiting. there will be meetings with the secretary of defense and secretary of state with the united states, mr. blinken, they will be here. we will be waiting for the time for the president of the united states to come here and support the ukrainian people as well. eric: former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. ambassador, the anticipated visit by blinken and austin, is it merely symbolic, dog and pony show or is it much much substantial or punch in the nose
cabinet have journeyed to ukrainians capital since the russian invasion started. that began exactly by the way two months ago. some european leaders have been there. among them prime minister boris johnson of britain. today marking orthodox easter, the holiest day on the orthodox christian calendar but the russians ignoring that continuing relentless bombing, more casualties despite the holy days, pound cities and towns in southern and eastern part of ukraine trying to grab the slice of the country for vladimir putin. we have live team fox news coverage, military analyst, we will look at the putin strategy on that in a moment and taylor on the high-level visit of secretary of defense to kyiv. let s give with matt finn live in lviv with the very latest on
all americans is important and so the time will be right at some point for president biden to show up. the last sitting president to visit kyiv was in 2008 and i know this because i was the ambassador there and i remember when president bush showed up in 2008 and it was a big boost. it was an attempt to get ukraine into nato. had we succeeded then then we wouldn t be here fighting today if ukraine were in nato. that didn t happen. so president biden showing up in kyiv when the security is right and president zelenskyy is right to say that the security environment needs to be right for president biden to show up and when he does, that s a very strong signal of support. eric: that visit likely at some point but not yet, former ambassador to ukraine william taylor, ambassador taylor, good to see you. fox news channel, towns along the southern border they are sounding alarm of the influx that is only expected to get worse. border patrol says they ll be a