Resistance movement . Ilya ponomarev In Washington, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. It is a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. Youre In Washington, dc. You are normally based in ukraine. I am very well aware that nato leaders are about to meet In Washington at the Nato Summit. Why are you there . Do you believe you have some role to play . We are communicating the position of the shadow Russian Parliament, the congress of peoples deputies, which is actually calling for nato to stop putting restrictions on ukraine, how we can resist the aggression, because right now our hands are very much tied in terms of retaliatory attacks, in terms of attacks inside russian territory, in terms of targeting the leaders of this regime, the War Criminals that are shooting childrens hospitals and destroying civilians in ukraine. Yeah. Youre responding there to what we have learned from kyiv in the last few hours about the latest Missile Strike on kyiv, which the ukrainians say hit a c
When this senseless war began, ukraine was a free country. Today, it is still a free country and the war will end with ukraine remaining a free and independent country. Russia will not prevail ukraine will prevail. The north atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded 75 years ago, after The End of World War ii, by the us, canada and several western European Nations as a collective Security Alliance against the soviet union. Nato has expanded its goals over the years, including Tackling Climate Change and cyber attacks. Since russias fullscale invasion, Sweden And Finland have joined the alliance and it is expected that ukraine will as well but not all Nato Members agree on the countrys membership. Importance of womens rights and security was highlighted at the conference on tuesday. The us Secretary Of State said they would commit more than 7 Million in Protective Gearfor Female ukrainian soldiers. A spokesman briefed officials on the security of woman and talked about the role of gender
On a kyiv summer morning. People helping with bare hands at ukraines largest Childrens Hospital. Even for a war hardened city, this was a Missile Strike which broke the gruelling rhythm of russias invasion. Some of the young patients were being treated for cancer, already fighting for their lives. They illustrate how these attacks do not discriminate. Translation we were in the middle of surgery when the windows got shattered, the surgeon quickly covered the baby to save him. I want the world to stop this, these children are innocent. Tatiana had a near miss. Translation we got here five minutes before it all started. I then the search for survivors stops for another missile alert. An underpass acts as a shelter this time. Residential buildings were also hit in kyiv, here bodies were recovered. Other cities were also attacked. On a visit to neighbouring poland, President Zelensky promised retaliation. Translation beyond any doubt, we are going to rebuild everything that these terrorist
Ilya ponomarev In Washington, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. It is a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. Youre In Washington, dc. You are normally based in ukraine. I am very well aware that nato leaders are about to meet In Washington at the Nato Summit. Why are you there . Do you believe you have some role to play . We are communicating the position of the shadow Russian Parliament, the congress of peoples deputies, which is actually calling for nato to stop putting restrictions on ukraine, how we can resist the aggression, because right now our hands are very much tied in terms of retaliatory attacks, in terms of attacks inside russian territory, in terms of targeting the leaders of this regime, the War Criminals that are shooting Childrens Hospitals and destroying civilians in ukraine. Yeah. Youre responding there to what we have learned from kyiv in the last few hours about the latest Missile Strike on kyiv, which the ukrainians say hit a childrens cancer hospit
pope s health take us through what we know about how he s doing, his message that he s delivering today well, good morning, kim. as you can see, that the pope has been and is celebrating the easter sunday mass in st. peter s square, attended by thousands of pilgrims from rome and across the world as you said, there have been concerns about his health, his battle, bouts of ill-health over the winter months, cold bronchitis, et cetera. but the pope has shown a determination to be part of all the liturgy. so far apart from on good friday evening where he pulled out at the last minute from the good friday stations of the cross event at rome s call and that was due to what the vatican said, a desire to preserve his health now, the easter sunday mass, the pope is presiding at the moment, is in fact the fifth liturgy that he will have presided at since thursday. so it does underline that this is a very intense schedule of services for any pope less alone an 87 year-old who ha