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Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

Extended Interview: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

CBS News

News, Politics

3.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Brennan interviews Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the latest in the war in Ukraine.

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0:00.0

We go now to the president of Ukraine, Vlodemar Zelensky, who joins us from Kiev.

0:05.8

Welcome back to face the nation, Mr. President.

0:08.3

Thank you so much, Margaret.

0:10.8

You have warned that Ukraine has intelligence that Russia is preparing for a new massive attack.

0:17.7

This is after Moscow had warned foreign nationals to leave your capital city ahead of

0:23.7

expanded strikes. Exactly what are you bracing for? So first of all, today at night or

0:30.9

tomorrow at night, we will have, we think that we will have big attack from Russian side, using drones, using

0:40.7

cruise missiles and ballistic. And we see the preparation. Always we see the preparation. By the way,

0:49.0

we are thankful to United States and European partners when they share with us intelligence.

0:56.0

So when we know that Russia prepares a big massive attack, definitely our partners also know,

1:03.0

maybe not a lot of details, but we know.

1:06.0

So today, of course, I didn't address yet to my country.

1:11.6

I will do it a little bit later in the evening.

1:15.6

And of course I will say that our people have to be very, very careful,

1:20.6

cautious and children and they have to use warm shelters because today at night or or tomorrow at night high percent of course nobody

1:29.7

knows it's 100 percent but there is a hundred percent so usually we have we have uh each day attack

1:38.4

from russian side on civilians and of course on battlefield and two times a week or two times per 10 days

1:47.7

they have big massive attacks with ballistic and etc last massive attack just just to understand

1:58.3

it was some days ago it was 600 drones, Iranian drones, Shahid's.

2:05.6

And they had about 30 plus ballistic missiles, and total it was 90 missiles and more than 600 Iranian drones.

2:18.0

So it was very difficult to destroy it.

2:21.7

We used all our weapon, what we have, what we produce.

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