The battlefield and to improve their position at the negotiating table. i wasn t satisfied with what i heard. i think that it s crucially important that the united states be clear that we are absolutely committed to zelenskyy s victory. we should not be talking about, as jake sullivan did just now, improving zelenskyy s position at the negotiating table. this is about defeating russian forces in ukraine. in just a few hours, president zelenskyy will take his case for international support to the south koreaen parliament. this will be the 20th foreign legislative body he has addressed since march 8th, along with international support for military aid and financial help, he s asking for much tougher sanctions on russia. cnn s paula hancocks live in seoul with what we can expect from president zelenskyy. he ll have a lot of convincing to do in south korea, here not expectation eager supporters, at least not yet. reporter: what we know at this point is from the defend
But there is an ongoing debate in washington over whether the biden administration is doing enough. we will continue to take every step we possibly can to help the ukrainian succeed on the battlefield and to improve their position the negotiating table. i wasn t satisfied with what i heard. i think that it is critically important that the united states be clear that we are absolutely committed to zelenskyy s victory. we should not be talking about, as jake sullivan did just now, improving zelenskyy s position at the negotiating table. this is about defeating russian forces in ukraine. all indications are that russia is now planning a new offensive in ukraine in the east and earlier asset ukraine lawmaker, if she believes this conflict will intensify and if so by how much. this was our response. well, you know, eastern parts of ukraine has always been a very hot spot for the exercises and for the events that are taking place for more
You ve seen the horrific images coming out of bucha and other ukrainian towns. you know on friday a russian missile strike on that railway station in eastern ukraine killed dozens of civilians who were just trying to escape, trying to get to where i am in lviv. president zelenskyy says russia is committing genocide here in ukraine. do you agree? the images are horrific. the stories we re hearing, we have been hearing from ukraine canadians, but through social media as well of what s going on, it s clear putin is systematically targeting civilians, whether it s hospitals, train stations, pa modernaity wards. this is one of the reasons why canada was one of the first countries to call on the international criminal court to look into putin s war crimes. we re providing investigative support, we re building up the case for people to recognize that, not only was this a terrible mistake to violate the
So you re going to see the focus, again, the focus is the southeast. they have said, you know, phase one is over, achieved all our objectives, which actually they withdrew from, again, the main effort originally which was kyiv, they didn t topple the government, replace president zelenskyy with a pro-russian figure. so now they re putting it all into the southeast. what they d like to do of course is by 9 may they d like to have a success so that when they celebrate world war ii victory day they can also say that they have now denazified the southeast part of ukraine, that s all they really wanted to do all along. again, they would love to have an area that would be all of this right here plus this ground link to crimea. he could paint that as a success, president putin could and, again, you have this one general that will be in charge of all of this. so the first time you actually have one figure who is the overall commander. he has been involved here, but now everyone else is steppin
To avoid a run-off, which is set for april 24th. election watchers think it will be much closer than their race five years ago. with ukrainian president zelenskyy renewing his calls for more arms support from the west, there s a fierce debate playing out in washington whether the biden administration is doing enough. we will continue to take every step we possibly can to help the ukrainians succeed on the battlefield and to improve their position at the negotiating table. i wasn t satisfied with what i heard. i think it s crucially important the united states be clear that we are absolutely committed to zelenskyy s victory. we should not be talking about, as jake sullivan did now, improving zelenskyy s position at the negotiating table this is about defeating russian forces in ukraine. my next guest sits on the house armed services committee,