undertaken by secretaries of state and defense of the united states. president zelenskyy foreshadowed their visit the night before, saying they would be coming, which was against kind of normal security protocol. this time this congressional delegation came and went. that is normally what happens with this high-level delegation where there s a lot of security risks involved. generally the vips come and then leave then they announce the visit. that is what appears to have happened here. we don t know exactly when that visit took place. both sides putting out statements about the meeting with president zelenskyy as you mentioned putting out a video. president zelenskyy saying, during that meeting, that he takes this visit as a sign of support and a signal that the united states is the, quote, leader of the support that ukraine is receiving against its for its fight against russia. we heard from house speaker nancy pelosi inside that meeting with president zelenskyy. i want to play a li
welcome to the show. it s 10:00 a.m. in ukraine. we begin with an unannounced visit to kyiv by some u.s. lawmakers. this video just coming in to us in the last few minutes. you ll see that is u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi leading a small democratic congressional delegation to meet with president volodymyr zelenskyy. pelosi says it was a message that america stands firmly with ukraine. we ll bring you details as soon as they become available. this video coming in to us in the last 10, 15 minutes. the visit comes amid a glimmer of hope for people trapped in the ukrainian city of mariupol after weeks under siege by russian forces and several failed evacuation attempts. a handful of civilians managed to leave on saturday. a ukrainian commander at the steel plant, the last bastion of
welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m isa soares coming to you live from lviv, ukraine. the latest developments out of ukraine, we ve shown you sfoet toes, a video of u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi making an unannounced visit to kyiv. president zelenskyy says they met earlier this morning with a group of u.s. lawmakers. pelosi said the trip was meant to, quote, send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world, america stands firmly with ukraine. a glimmer of hope for hundreds of people believed to be trapped in the besieged steel plant in mariupol. a ukrainian commander says 20
symbolical gesture. k kyiv and situation in kyiv is not stable. two days ago when we had official visit, secretary-general of u.n., we have two rockets shelling on residential district. and our colleague from radu liberty was killed because the rocket was shelled directly into her apartment. our condolences for the passing of your colleague. we did report this on cnn. our thoughts are with you and everyone close to her and the family. and these horrors we ve been seeing, not just in kyiv as well, alexandra, but really across ukraine, images we re seeing, horrifying images out of bucha. we ve had terrifying stories with that. give us a sense what was you ve been seeing, what you ve been hearing. since the beginning of russian large-scale invasion,
civilians were evacuated on saturday. he says he s hoping evacuations will continue today and include not only civilians but also wounded ukrainian troops. in the south of ukraine, president zelenskyy is pledging to rebuild a destroyed runway in the city of odesa. he says the airport was struck by russian missiles on saturday. witnesses reported seeing military planes in the sky and hearing multiple explosions in the area. for more on the surprise visit to kyiv by u.s. lawmakers, i ll bring in matt rivers who joins me from the capital, kyiv. matt, so unannounced visit here today from nancy pelosi. what more can you tell us? reporter: she was joined by several senior members of this congressional delegation, including representatives gregory meeks, including adam schiff. pretty high-level delegation. it followed more along the security protocols that we re used to, isa, compared to the last senior visit that was