4.6 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York, 11 p.m. here in Kyiv, Ukraine. |
0:09.0 | I'm Ali Velshii in for my friend Nicole Wallace. |
0:11.8 | Just a few hundred miles away from where I am. |
0:14.2 | President Joe Biden made a bid to bolster the global coalition that came together a year |
0:19.0 | ago in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has so far defied expectations, |
0:26.0 | staying united after a year of brutal fighting with no end in sight. |
0:30.7 | Speaking in Poland, a former Eastern block country that's no stranger to Russian aggression, |
0:35.3 | Biden started off by saying that the war has so far defied two big expectations. |
0:40.8 | One, that Kyiv would fall within days. |
0:43.8 | And two, that the Western alliance would splinter as the war dragged on. |
0:48.3 | Watch. |
0:49.3 | One year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of Kyiv. |
0:55.8 | Well, I just come from a visit to Kyiv and I can report, Kyiv stands strong. |
1:03.8 | Kyiv stands proud. |
1:06.1 | His stance tall and most important is stance free. |
1:10.0 | When Russia invaded, it wasn't just Ukraine being tested. |
1:17.4 | The whole world faced the test for the ages. |
1:21.2 | Europe was being tested. |
1:23.6 | America was being tested. |
1:24.6 | NATO was being tested. |
1:26.3 | All democracies were being tested. |
1:28.9 | And the questions we faced were as simple as they were profound. |
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