ukraine. nehammer met with the russian president last week, the first european leader to do so since this war of choice began. he said that at the end of their meeting putin warned him in german, it is better the war ends earlier rather than later. here s more now from nehammer. i think he is now in his own war logic. he thinks the war is necessary for security guarantees for the russian federation. he doesn t trust the international community. he blames the ukrainians to for genocide genocide in the donbas region. i think he believes he is winning the war. cnn s nadia bashir is live for us in london. what we re hearing from the austrian chancellor it raises the question of how do you negotiate with someone who seems to be delusional if they believe they re winning this war?
from zelenskyy he believes the russian forces will be intensifying their attacks, their operations in the eastern region. he says they completely want to finish off and destroy the donbas region. there is a serious concern there. as you mentioned, nehammer is one of several european leaders to have now visited ukraine but he is the first to have sat down with president putin now. there have been numerous attempts by other european leaders, particularly french president emmanuel macron, to speak to putin, to bring him to the negotiate s table, to bring some sort of resolution to this conflict. but just as you said there, it is proving more and more difficult with president putin completely saying he doesn t trust western officials, he doesn t trust those attempts to bring some sort of resolution to this conflict. john? nada, thank you. nada bashir there in london. back here in lviv, we now here the air raid sirens going off once more. i understand, i believe, that that could be the al
absolutely, john. we heard from the chancellor there saying he can t fully understand putin s war logic. he did have what he described as a frank and tough discussion with the russian president. he said he wanted to confront him with the realities on ground. he did of course visit bucha where we saw those atrocities unfold, what has now been described as war crimes. he said he wanted to confront president putin with these realities. but as you heard there from nehammer, russian president vladimir putin believes he is winning this war. he still believes this war is necessary in order to ensure russia s security guarantees. that is the message we ve been hearing from the kremlin since the beginning of this invasion. but the second key message we ve been hearing from the kremlin is that they are fighting what they ve described as a geneocid in the donbas region. putin telling nehammer that. he continues to reiterate that. that of course comes as we hear
residential neighborhoods that s of course an act of terror but i think it s also a move to scare the local population. and then on top of everything you and i have just said is lviv is also a humanitarian hub now. the u.n. has a big presence there. it s a big distribution hub. so this could also disrupt that because the other thing we ve had going on in the past few days even here in kyiv is more embassies coming back, which was a good sign, another step to more normalcy. but this could change all of that in many, many different ways. yeah. it does seem to be certainly a different set of circumstances around this latest attack here on lviv. and of course the concern is what comes next. michael bociurkiw, thank you so much for being with us. your time and insights very much appreciated. thank you.hancello nehammer says vladimir putin seems to have a full grasp on what is unfolding here in