Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, April 5th. I'm Nailibudu. Today, how

to get started with crypto investing. Also, jury selection in the death penalty trial

for the Parkland shooter. First, today's one big thing. How war in Ukraine is challenging

what the West stands for.

Indeed, this is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people, we are the

citizens of Ukraine. We have more than a hundred nationalities. This is about the destruction

and extermination of all these nationalities. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky there,

speaking through a government interpreter, describing apparent Russian war crimes committed

against the people of Ukraine. He was interviewed by CBS host Margaret Brennan on face

the nation. Margaret's with us now to talk about that conversation and what the last few

days have meant for this conflict. Hi, Margaret. Hi. How are you? Margaret, I was struck

by the strength of the language that Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky used when you spoke

with him. With the possibility of war crimes by Russia, do you feel like this conflict

has moved into a new phase? Well, the conflict has moved into a new phase in terms of Russia

repositioning its forces into the East, which is what allowed us to start getting these

images of what was happening in those areas that had been under Russian control in

Kiev around the capital. And it begs the question of what aren't we seeing in some of these

other areas, particularly in the southeast. So this is starting to give us an idea of what

six weeks of Russian military aggression has been like for civilians.

And as you speak to American lawmakers and policy experts, what do you anticipate in

terms of the type of pressure you feel like they are under to respond to this? Well, there

is bipartisan support and it's building pressure on the administration to get that diplomatic

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