ali velshi filling in live from ukraine, starts right now. hi, ali. hi, joy. thank, you my friend. have a good. evening j good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. any moment now are expecting air force one to land with joe biden s planned visit to ukraine and the surprise visit to a. close here in kyiv there is a heavy feeling vetting zion-y air as the world waits and watches now to see how russian president vladimir putin will respond to ukraine s show of strength this week. today putin held a captive audience rally to celebrate the one year anniversary of his invasion, when your anniversary will be on friday. but this happened in a massive moscow stadium, the site of the 2018 world cup. the propaganda event which began with the performance of the russian singer gregory laps, who has faced allegations of ties to the mafia and who until earlier this month was on the u.s. sanctions list. it also featured a grim start involving a number of children the russia claims it rescue
they re willing to carry a protest sign for a day. with us now to talk about this, mark, senior national political reporter for nbc news digital. nbc news washington correspondent and moderator of washington week on pbs who is a professor at the cardell school of law. we ll have more on the polling in a moment. mark, what else did the judge say in his order a short time ago? for me, what really stood out is this was mentioned in court on friday when i was there, but the judge specifically mentioned, i m going to try to read it from the ruling that he said given the public notoriety and controversy about the search, it s unlikely that witnesses who aren t expressly named in the affidavit would be quickly and identified broadly over social media and other communications channels and that could lead to them being harassed and intimidated. the judges are putting a fine point, clear exclamation point on an argument the governor raised which is look, people can really be harass
In other places in the country. i spoke twisty and team of software developers who left kharkiv together. for a while they were all living, i think, nine people, for cats and two dogs in a two bedroom apartment somewhere on the outskirts of kyiv because peoples options frank so much quicker than anyone could ve expected. are you struck by the determination? i know when i ve been here i ve been struck by the idea that nobody wants a quick exit. nobody wants a negotiated settlement settlement. you are here to commemorate the first anniversary. this is the ninth anniversary, as far as most nash russians are concerned. what s interesting is the way they speak about a lot of the time. i don t typically hear ukrainians say, i wish for this were to and, although i know of course when they say is, i wish that i could go home soon. i wish that i could go back. i wish that we could take these places, that we can reclaim the
Russian offensive or some sort of escalated attacks on ukraine. we have yet to see the new offensive. we have seen some things going on in southern and eastern ukraine, but it doesn t feel like a renewed offensive. what are you anticipating for this week and coming weeks? for this week it s clear to me that putin is going to attempt to launch a drone and missile barrage. it s going to be minimally effective is it has been consistently with advanced capabilities. but it s another series of terror campaigns. he s going to, rallying mainly for his own domestic population, it won t have a meaningful effect on ukraine, buttery s own population he needs to show strength. it looks like russia s undertaking some form of an offensive. it s not precise. it s not focused on a couple of areas. it s defused across the entire 700 kilometer frontline. it is encountering massive resistance from the ukrainians. the russians are taking massive losses. and slowly sapping their strength. there may be a
It was not a matter of if but when. in the early evening, u.s. victory of state anthony blinken told that the invasion could be underway at any moment. if you have reason to believe that before this night is over, russian forces will be engaged in something akin to a full invasion of ukraine? i do. i took the anchor chair msnbc headquarters in new york city at 9 pm eastern time that night. our nbc news correspondent spread out across ukraine, in the capital city, kyiv, kharkiv, near the russian border in the northeast, and memorable on the azov sea. and that our, things were relatively calm throughout most of ukraine. they are poised and ready to come over that border at anytime. the main risk here isn t the ukrainians would fight, it s that they will fight. the calm would not last much longer. flights of civil aircraft have now been restricted in all of ukrainian airspace. it is now almost six a. m. in eastern ukraine, and there are reports of noises being heard that could