Ukrainian people at the hands of russians. i think we re probably going to be reporting more in the next 24 hours so there s been off and on communications with the people who are left in this azovstal plant. the mayor saying earlier they lost communications. we understand now and been giving tv addresses throughout the day updating the situation and understand communication is back but it s reported that russian forces have now entered that immediate area around that plant where people are and we know there s a high number, hundreds perhaps of ukrainian fighters who are wounded in that site because we ve been hearing that from ukrainian commanders able to kind of miraculously we should say get messages and videos out and a daily basis. the mission seems to be capture or kill the people in the plant and seems like we re sort of in the final hours of what has been sort of a last hold-out. the tom nichols piece is well timed obviously because i think people here are talking a lot about
President putin is very keen on and forced unity, rewriting essentially history, saying ukraine is essentially an entirely created by russia. and entirely. he is notjust trying to bring the clock back to a soviet communism but actually to a sort of imperial russia here? if actually to a sort of imperial russia here? russia here? if you look at vladimir russia here? if you look at vladimir putin s russia here? if you look at | vladimir putin s statements russia here? if you look at - vladimir putin s statements and speeches and tv addresses over the last few days, months even, there is an opportunity to get inside his mind and you can see that he does not believe that modern ukraine is a sovereign nation. he sees it as a territory, historically linked to russia and that came out in his televised address today and he believes, i think, that this territory should be back in moscow s orbit. interestingly, i was talking to one medical
Of the union address later tonight? well, woclf, in fact, we checked with the president s spokesperson and he said that the president, president putin usually does not watch tv addresses. that he prefers to have a written report that he reads later. so president putin may not be watching, but you can be sure that members of the kremlin staff, certainly intelligence, the military, the foreign ministry, et cetera, will be very carefully watching and analyzing and we might get a statement the next day. it s late here in moscow. wolf. i m sure president biden will have a message for putin in that address tonight. we ll be watching very closely. thank you very, very much. there s more breaking news we re following just ahead. how long can kyiv, the ukrainian capital, hold out against vladimir putin s war machine? we re taking a closer look at the 40-mile convoy threatening
That we don t know whether or not he has met with speaker boehner and you with critical of the fact that he came out and took up prime time and gave the nation that address, and what do you expect him to do next? well, all journalists were concerned and critical is the right word of the president using a prime time tv address for a political purpose. this is a partisan argument and his main concern right now is to avoid another vote next year which will endanger his re-election concern and that is a partisan concern and it was not just me, but i spoke to many journalists who say that prime time tv addresses should be reserved for events and not partisan debate. and it was not a public announcement, but a partisan debate. will it take a toll on the president s approval ratings down the line? no, everything depends what we are hearing right now about good news on the unemployment situation.
Jay carney alluded to the fact that we don t know whether or not he has met with speaker boehner and you with critical of the fact that he came out and took up prime time and gave the nation that address, and what do you expect him to do next? well, all journalists were concerned and critical is the right word of the president using a prime time tv address for a political purpose. this is a partisan argument and his main concern right now is to avoid another vote next year which will endanger his re-election concern and that is a partisan concern and it was not just me, but i spoke to many journalists who say that prime time tv addresses should be reserved for events and not partisan debate. and it was not a public announcement, but a partisan debate. will it take a toll on the president s approval ratings down the line? no, everything depends what we are hearing right now about good news on the unemployment