This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you from Kiev.

Today, a special edition of the program from Ukraine, a country that's been at war now

for almost 600 days. I have an exclusive interview with the country's president, Volodymyr

Zelensky. This week, he fired his defense minister, visited the front lines, and welcomed

Secretary of State Blinken. I ask him about all that and more. Ukraine will never

go back, go away from our land. Then, as it awaits F-16 fighters, Ukraine's best weapons

up in the sky are drones. The country's so-called army of drones has been a game-changer

for surveillance, dropping bombs, and kamikaze missions. I talk to the mastermind behind

the program, the country's Minister of Digital Transformation. Finally, the Children of War.

Last September, I introduced you to some amazing kids in Kiev, who had just gone back to

school for the first time since the war started. This week, we went back to see them

again. To see how they're holding up after another year of strife. After all this dark

times, you went to the best life that you can. But first, here's my take. The overnight

train ride from Poland to Ukraine is a reminder of why this land has been so hardly contested

over the last century. Ukraine's soil is among the most fertile on the planet. We passed

vast fields of wheat and other crops, dotted with small farmhouses, some of them still

using horses to plow the fields. As we approach Kiev, the landscape quickly shifted to urban.

Despite the war, Ukraine's railways continue to be clean, comfortable, and efficient. My

train rolled into Kiev right on time. That might be a phrase that says a lot about Ukraine.

Despite the war, Kiev is now almost normal. A year into the invasion, roughly half of

Kiev's population had fled. But many people have since returned. The city had about 3.9

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