using social media to inspire ukrainians to fight and push western leaders to punish russia for killing innocent civilians. we call on all countries of the world to immediately and firmly react to such criminal tactics by the aggressor, declare that russia is carrying out state terrorism. 44-year-old leader was born to jewish parents. something that contradicts vladimir putin s claims of neo-nazi with ukraine. zelenskyy does not hide the fact in 1941 and 1942 the nazis killed half of his family. the whole nazi thing coming out of the kremlin is absurd. after earning a law degree in 2000 he founded one of ukraine s most successful entertainment studios. he is the voice of paddington bear in ukraine s version of the film and played ukraine s president in a tv show called servant of the people. he is a smart guy.
a country to shore up our own national security? it was not mentioned. bill: the first in line is president biden is no olaf schultz. he is the new german chancellor whose speech last saturday that stunned everybody, germany s commitment to ukraine s defense and the defense of nato, too. so more coming up and reaction on that. dana: it changes in a week. incredible. bill: in a moment the war in ukraine driving up gas prices here at home. announcing a response but is that a short-term fix. the former house speaker newt gingrich joins us. dana: ukrainians are trying to slow down the russians. i m so proud of my people. i think the nation is very strong and ukrainians are very, very peaceful people but
tough to see where the deal is. and i have to wonder, you know, getting to what you were saying a few moments ago about the way that putin has lied about the ukrainians and said that they are going into root out neo-nazis and the way he has attacked zelenskyy in this fashion, does putin suffer from sort of a cold war mindset in that he thinks what he tells the russian people will be taken as gospel in the ways that they live been in the old soviet union when they have the internet, they have social media in russia, and in ukraine, i suppose when the russian soldiers cross the border and come in contact with ukrainians, they will find out that they are not nazis. something doesn t compute for me when it comes to how putin has set it up and how he has explained it to the russian people. you are raising a very interesting point, which is that we are watching a war which is at one level very old fashioned,
we re not talking about peace talks here, but we re talking about talks at least between the russians and ukrainians on the border between ukraine and belarus to the north where we will get a picture of whether there is a possibility of this conflict being brought to an end through the diplomatic path or whether the war will resume. all right. matthew chance, thank you very much. we appreciate it. and nick paton walsh is joining us now from a city in southern ukraine. what are you seeing there? reporter: yeah, we ve actually moved away since mykolav to odesa partly because of the violence that was encircling that town on the black sea. we were there 24 hours and saw the heroism, grit and determination of those living there and the fear that they have of saboteurs in their
the white house is not answering in kind interestingly. they are saying that this is essentially a manufactured threat that doesn t exist, and that u.s. forces, nuclear forces, are sufficient the way they are right now. but it is definitely very provocative. and i have to mention also today in the military realm that briefing by the spokesperson for the ministry of defense who for the first time admitted that russia actually has lost people dying and wounded, no numbers, but this is the first time that they have actually admitted that, in the same breath the general who was briefing said it is far fewer than the ukrainians. but this is another important moment. and i ll give you one more quote, just kind of like that slamming of the door by moscow to the west, the former president medvedev, i m sure you remember him, he said why do we