closer to victory. president biden s visit to kyiv, a defiant review of vladimir putin, as the world asks, when will this war and? how far will the u.s. and allies go to defend democracy on the brink, and what will putin do next in his unprovoked attack on a sovereign state? russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war is failing. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. and this is a special edition of the situation room. president biden is back in poland tonight, after a day that will go down in history, preparing for another momentous day tomorrow, when he and vladimir putin will be delivering dueling addresses, nearly 800 miles apart. president biden traveled under a cloak of secrecy to the capital of ukraine earlier this morning, the city that russia thought it would be able to capture right at the start of this invasion. but kyiv still stands almost one year into this war. what a dramatic
With ukrainians meeting with zelenskyy today. what do you think of that? translator: they will be varying my son-in-law tomorrow. they will bring him in a coffin, cast be the war. [crying] the generalized occurs on the geopolitics that has led to private and personal misery for yet another ukrainian family there, wolf, but we also spoke to one man and he repeated the wider statement, the wider reaction to american international help. give us more weapons, this is what he said. what do you think of biden s visit to kyiv today, the american president is in kyiv visiting zelenskyy right now? [speaking non-english] translator: it is for the best. do you have a message for him? translator: what would i tell the american president? give us more weapons so we can now, of course, this area, wolf, is being pounded, as i
Process tell the new york that the eu is expected to give members until the end of the year, this year, to completely ban russian oil imports. although some countries, which are almost entirely dependent on russian oil s hungry and slovakia for instance, are expected to give in a longer period of time. joining me now live from lviv ukraine s raf sanchez, nbc news correspondent. the speaker of the house in senior congressional delegation comes on the heels of several other major world and european leaders visiting zelenskyy. what s the least visits do for them? they give these leaders a real, on the ground sense of the war with ukrainian people, that they are. fighting into pelosi is a big drop once she gets back to washington. she has to steer that 33 billion dollar ukrainian aid package that president biden is asking for, through that unruly congress. and i expect ali, that you want
Mariupol, with the russians being there, they re continuing to bring terror on the ukrainian people. it amazes me they haven t put forces in the steel plant to try and route out the remaining ukrainian forces that are in there. it tells us they re not willing to do the hard work, getting in the tunnels, routing out the ukrainian forces to claim victory. if they re not willing to do that, then when you take a look at the entire war, for nine weeks now, we have not seen a strategic victory. this may, mariupol may not be a victory for the russians as this continues. let me ask you your response to the sec of def and secretary of state visiting zelenskyy and