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- I used to carry around
a little card in my wallet.

Printed on it was a passage
written by

Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright William Saroyan.

His words have served me
as a a kind of

aspirational instruction

on how I might best
live my life.

In its few
and poignant paragraphs

I held it as a Bible of sorts.

Its thoughts had resonated
deeply with me

from a young age
and on a visceral level

and for decades.

But it had not become
so crystal clear

in its relevance until
this past year and half

as I made seven trips
to and from Ukraine

for the making of this film.

- For those of you watching,

Vladimir Putin
has just declared

that a special military
operation is now underway.

- This speech
by Vladimir Putin

basically saying
that this war

is on the hands
of the Ukrainians who resist.

[distant explosion]
Oh. I tell you what.

I just heard a big bang.

- And the distinct sound
of explosions

on the horizon here in Kyiv.

- Go, go, go.

- A democratic country
has been invaded

by its nuclear-armed
neighbor.

- At least three explosions
rocked the capital of Kyiv.

- We should go
a little bit faster.

- Russia is picking off
Ukraine's military facilities

one after another.

- No, no, guys.

- Okay.
- What the fuck is going on?

[dramatic music]

♪

- If the Russians
did attack,

they'd have a short run
to Kharkiv.

We're driving north
towards the border

with Russia,
which is now about

15 or 20 minutes away.

About half an hour beyond that
is the city of...

- I really want to get back
over there.

- They pulled back
logistical units

that they could move back
to bases

that are already close by.

All the, like, the things
that would be essential for--

to take Kyiv
they've left in place.

- But then the counterpoint

from the Unites States'
position is that

they've also moved things
in what looks like

a strategic movement towards--

- You have to spend this money
to train the troops

on logistics
on how you make these moves.

- I had a conversation

with a former
State Department official,

and he, like us,

"I don't think it's going
to happen" kind of feel.

Some of these pieces will
be edited out of the film,

because it might be us saying,
"It's not going to happen.

- And then they fucking...
- No.

In fact, though,
it's a valuable time capsule

to, you know...
- With feeling.

- Yes, we will admit it.

But it's not going to happen.

- Erin's hearing
from the Zelensky office.

How do you feel about
jumping on the plane Sunday?

- Let's say things get weird

and they shut down airlines...
- Right.

- Into Kyiv,
should we go to Poland?

- There's a natural
kind of avenue to get there.

We fly in and drive in.
- Yeah.

Is there a train?

[laughter]

- I'll check on the train.
- Fuck, that was tits.

That was really great.

That was one of
the great nights in my life

just being able to look
out the window

at the distant little lights
and villages.

[train whistle blows]

[tense brooding music]

♪

- So...

- We're gonna follow your lead,

because we're starting
from zero.

♪

- Okay.

♪

♪

♪

- This project started with,

"Oh,
what a cute human interest.

"This comedic actor,
this nice little guy

"has become
the president of Ukraine.

This is going to be funny."

I talked to Sean about it
just as a friend.

I said, "Oh,
I'm doing this, you know,

this project on Zelensky."

And Sean said, "Oh, you know,
I've been watching

"a little bit about this guy.

He seems, like,
really interesting."

And I've seen Sean do this
with other things

and people
that he finds interesting.

- Before the quake,
actor Sean Penn

had never been to Haiti.

He has been there almost
full-time since January.

- I've often been asked,

"What's a Hollywood
actor doing

by going to places
of disaster..."

- We arrived in Baghdad
this morning.

- "Of conflict..."

I cannot conceive why they
would not have shared

the evidence
of weapons of mass destruction.

- Remember that Sean Penn
is an arrogant

and self-involved person.

- You know, even his poop
doesn't stink.

- "Spending time with alleged
enemies of America

- Two-time Oscar winner
Sean Penn...

- "Or much worse?

- Shaking hands
with El Chapo.

Who do you think you are,
Walter Cronkite?"

- Unbelievable,
you see these celebrities...

"Do you have
a savior complex?"

- Just stick to what
you're good at,

but stay out of our politics.

I just don't quite get why CNN
keeps having him on.

- What really motivates you,
Sean Penn?

- [inhales]

The best response
that I've ever

been able to muster
is that I'm curious.

I've been lucky in life to
be able to afford to travel.

And weathered
though it is,

my famous face

gets me access
to places and people

I may otherwise
not have known.

And sometimes I feel
I can be helpful.

This film is unusual.

When Billy Smith and I set out
to make this film

there'd been no recent sign
of accelerated threat

to Ukraine by Russia.

Most of what I knew
about President Zelensky

was that he had too
had been an actor

and that as president
he had the very unfortunate

international perception

of having an attempt
at him being puppeted

by then U.S. president
Donald Trump.

- Tonight
an explosive allegation

by a government whistleblower.

- It details
President Trump's conversation

with the Ukrainian president.

- It was on that call
President Trump

told the Ukrainian president,

"I would like you
to do us a favor.

- Suddenly I had to do
what I do,

listen to smart people.

- In the early 1990s, when
the Soviet Union collapsed,

Ukraine had on its territory

the world's third-largest
nuclear arsenal.

If you go back and you look

at the George H.W. Bush
administration

and then the first year
or two

of the Clinton administration,

a real focus was on getting
rid of those nuclear weapons.

And the Ukrainians
at the end of the day

were prepared to do that.

Their one condition was,
they said, "Look,

"nuclear weapons
offer security.

If we get rid of them,
how do you replace that?"

And we came up with something
that seemed like a good idea

at the time.

And it was
the Budapest Memorandum

on Security Assurances,
where the United States,

Britain, and Russia said,

"We will respect
your sovereignty,

"your territorial integrity,
your independence.

"And we will not use
or threaten

to use force against you."

Russians, of course,
have violated all of that.

[plunky piano music]

♪

- We'd originally set out
to tell the whimsical tale

of a real-world president,

who had been
a comedy superstar

in a series
about a rural history teacher

who becomes a president

only later
to actually become one.

- Reality
had mirrored fiction,

and Zelensky
had made it difficult

for many of us to know

where the television president
ended and the real one began.

- It was feeling
ever more strangely

like a movie within a movie

within a movie.

What would it take
for Ukraine

to be accepted into NATO?

- NATO said,
"Enlargement will be a matter

"between the alliance
and the country in question

and no third parties."

Well, I think
it's fairly obvious

Russia's gotten
a de facto vote.

I think the concern here is,

if Ukraine joins NATO
on Monday,

on Tuesday, is NATO
then at war with Russia?

- The situation
in and around Ukraine

remains fluid
and unpredictable.

There is no certainty
about Russia's intentions.

We see a significant

and unusual
concentration of forces,

which is, you know,
unjustified and unexplained.

- And with the current
Russian buildups...

- Yeah.
- How does that go

for a president like Zelensky?

- I think Zelensky
is a problem for Putin

in the sense
that he contradicts

the Russian narrative.

I mean, the Russian
narrative of Ukraine

is that there's an ultra-right
neo-Nazi government

that hates Russia
and hates Russians,

including Ukrainians
who are ethnic Russians.

Zelensky is a problem
for that.

He's Jewish.

- Let's be serious.

We're now living in the world
where...

He made an entertainment
empire making movies,

coming to shows all over
the post-Soviet space.

He was a star in Russia
as well.

- [speaking native language]

[cheers and applause]

- The situation
was changing

and feeling more urgent

for us as trying to tell
a story about Zelensky

to get over there
as soon as possible

to give Sean a feel
for the place

before it all
might go sideways.

- [singing in native language]

♪

- We took in a bit
of nightlife,

met with some veterans
of the Crimea invasion...

[indistinct chatter]

Then ultimately with
a very big and strong man

who was posed to challenge
Zelensky for the presidency.

- Vitali Klitschko has made
history as a boxer.

- Vitali Klitschko
retained his share

of the heavyweight title.

- But he's recently
left the ring

for a far more dangerous
arena.

- Right now
I continue my fight,

because I see the great
future of my country.

- There's a lot of parallels
between Ukraine

and the United States today
politically.

One of them is how people
define freedom.

- Regarding Ukraine,
it's our freedom

to be independent,

independent to make
a decision where we go.

Not so many people know
about Ukraine,

because we're
a very young country.

We just celebrate
30 years' independency.

We was in Soviet Union,

and somebody have an idea
to rebuild

big Russian empire.

- Somebody has an idea
to rebuild the Soviet Empire?

- Yeah.
- Yeah. That's right. Okay.

- We don't want back to USSR.

We're fighting
to build democracy,

to have a choice.

To be part of modern world,
I guess, is freedom.

But just after 2014,

we clearly understand
what this mean,

territorial integrity
and independency.

People pay for that
highest price.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Thousands upon thousands
of demonstrators

have taken to the streets
furious with the government

of President
Viktor Yanukovych.

- Yanukovych reversed
his decision to sign

a long-awaited trade deal
with the European Union

in a move that favored
stronger ties with Russia.

- I can't imagine us living
in the pre-Maidan times,

in the country
with authoritarian rule.

We didn't have
strong institutions

that were pro-Ukranian.

Our information space
was merged with Russia.

We didn't think much
about Ukrainian identity,

but people changed.

- I am Ukrainian.

We are not a Soviet Union.

We want to be free.

Maidan was such
an empowering moment

for my generation.

Like, each of us,
we felt that our voice matter,

our persistence matters,
and that we can win.

- Before Maidan,
Ukraine was kind of

a gray area on the map.

- No one understood
what's really the difference

between Ukraine and Russia.

We were completely, like,
in this kleptocratic state,

like, where everyone
was stealing everything.

And one of the goals
of this protest

was to clean up corruption
from Ukrainian government.

And it was so hard.

[tense music]

♪

[gunfire]

- Fallen bodies
in the streets of Kyiv.

Protesters confronting
security services,

who respond
with live ammunition.

- We're hearing
from medical officials

that possibly
100 people have died.

That figure is going
to inflame

an awful lot of anger.

♪

- Ukrainians have
this historical willingness

to be a democratic state.

And because it is so hard
to get,

it becomes very precious.

[morose music]

♪

[gunfire]

- At the ceremony, the lady
who spoke before you said

he wanted to build Europe here.

Is that dream one
that will be realized

in the future of Ukraine?

- Euromaidan gave a great push
to build our own sense

of responsibility.

We started to realize,
it's our country.

We have to do something.

- In a special session,
Ukraine's parliament

voted to remove
President Viktor Yanukovych.

- He fled to Russia,
urging Moscow to retaliate.

- Annexation of Crimea
was made possible

because of Euromaidan.

It allowed Putin
to switch on the propaganda.

[applause]

- Shame on me having focused
so little of my attention

on Ukraine's 2004
Orange Revolution

or its significant leader,
Viktor Yushchenko.

After being elected president
in 2005,

Yushchenko became Ukraine's
first modern leader

to stand up for Ukraine's
sovereignty

against Russia's unrelentingly
invasive grip.

While I,
like most Americans,

remembered little beyond
the headlines

about the dioxin poisoning
of Yushchenko

by Russian assets,

this had been
a sanguine moment

in Ukraine's
sovereign evolution.

In the ten politically corrupt
and chaotic years

of disappointment
that followed,

the masses had maintained
that rumble of freedom calling

until that rumble
became the river

that burst into Maidan.

[tense percussive music]

♪

- We were all through
eastern Ukraine,

and we traveled down
to Mariupol.

- Mariupol, which had been so
consistently scarred

since 2014,
would later become the site

of so much death
and destruction.

♪

[groans]

Why did you decide to serve?

- And you rose to position
of commander?

- And you're a sniper?

- It's November 2021.

Where is general troop morale?

[morose music]

- After Maidan, it was hard
to imagine myself

anywhere else in the world,

because Ukraine
is a country in the making.

And, like, being a part
of the historical process

of building a state,

it's bigger than anything.

Like, you're building
something

that will influence life of
people for hundreds of years.

- After Maidan,
people expected

a new political elite,
a new government

will change
the situation dramatically,

will fight corruption,
will change internal rules,

and so on and so forth.

But, unfortunately,
the old corrupted elite--

Western-related
but still corrupted--

came to power.

- He was one of the wealthiest
people in the country

from day one.

- Ukrainians perceived
Poroshenko, many of them,

as another oligarch,
a rich man going to power

and becoming
even more rich man.

- There's a saying here,

which may sound bad,

but as long
as there's corruption,

you can count on justice.

- This kind of idea
of Ukrainians,

that there are oligarchs
who privatized the country,

and they put
the private interests

over the public interests.

So Zelensky
was playing on this,

that, "I will come,
and I will break this system."

[rock music]

- His political life began

with that really incredible
coup on New Year's Eve.

- [exhaling sharply]

- Zelensky was, you know,
ally with Kolomoisky,

one of the oligarchs.

And Kolomoisky TV channel,
1+1,

instead of address
of the president, Poroshenko,

they put address of Zelensky.

- Zelensky has done a lot
to try to separate himself

from Kolomoisky,
but I don't get the sense

that he's as compromised

as someone
like Viktor Yanukovych

or Petro Poroshenko,
who are legitimate oligarchs.

- In Ukraine, it's not
necessarily a country

that's black and white;
it's shades of gray.

- Here's a young kid, pure,

innocent, white,
fluffy bunny rabbit

untouched by the dirt
of politics.

- He knows what to do.

- I saw his show,
"The Servant of the People,"

exactly what he would do
if he was president,

which is destroy oligarchy,
destroy corruption.

[upbeat music]

Be careful.

- He was one
of the most famous actor

not just in Ukraine,
of all territory

of the Soviet Union.

He not be an actor
who is sitting and waiting,

what happened around him.

He was producer.
He was director.

- Whoo-hoo!

- [speaking
in native language]

- The choice is very simple,
either or.

Zelensky is hope.

- Sometimes he is not
very well-prepared.

- He's really trying.

It's just, like, not his role.

- I mean, we don't know
what he thinks

about almost anything.
- Well, indeed.

- Test out the policies
in the TV show.

See if they bump, you know,
and implement them.

- Yes.

[upbeat music]

- Zelensky came in,

a political novice,
supposedly,

but I think he ran
an excellent campaign.

You know, his themes were,
"I'm going to fight corruption.

"I'm going to grow the economy.

"We're going to stop
the war with Russia,

and we're going to get
our territory back."

- We are living
in the country

in which all the presidents

was from
some politic elite.

I've been not sure
that it can be possible,

but I was sure about him.

Absolutely.

[cheers and applause]

- A political earthquake took
place in Ukraine this weekend.

On Sunday an electorate
sick of the status quo

voted overwhelmingly
for a political satirist.

[cheers and applause]

- We were meeting
with people every day

while waiting
for it all to line up

to meet with the president.

Between people on the street,

people in bars
and restaurants,

people from all walks of life,

I don't think
we found anybody

who said, "This is the guy."

Did you vote for him?

- Were you a fan
of "Servant of the People"?

- I think a lot of people
who voted for them

were also confused,

and they were choosing, like,
from lesser evil.

- I didn't vote for him,

and I was very skeptical
about him.

He did belong
to Russian world.

He worked
and made money in Russia.

I think that for a long time,

he expected that he could find
some understanding.

- Who is Zelensky to you?

- He's the president,
you know?

I don't vote for him,
because for me,

president in Ukraine
must be a man with the balls.

Because when we have president
which want to speak

with the Russians
about the peace,

what the fuck, man?

Russians don't care
about peace.

- How old were each of you
when you went to fight?

- I was 27.
- 35.

- What led you to it?

- My father was born
in Crimea.

My mother lived in Donetsk.

And Crimea and Donetsk
now is occupied by Russians.

So I don't want Russians
in my house.

Our neighbors,
fucking neighbors.

- Da, fucking neighbors.

Fucking neighbors.

- We're currently
in this situation

where there's
a major Russian buildup.

- We live with this
for 7 1/2 years.

We understand that
they can go to war at us.

So maybe for United citizens,

it's like, you know...
[gasps]

For Ukrainians, it's like,
"Okay, we know, yeah."

When your enemy is Russian,

you must be fucking tough guy.

And it's a time when president

must, mm,
do some difficult decisions.

- More now
on our top national story.

The whistleblower

at the center
of the impeachment inquiry

by the House
of Representatives alleged

that President Trump abused
the power of his office.

- President repeatedly urged

Ukrainian president
Volodymyr Zelensky

to investigate
his political rival.

- Allegations
of a quid pro quo,

that U.S. president
Donald Trump

made military aid to Ukraine

dependent on the country
digging up dirt

on Trump's
political opponent.

- It is improper for the
president of the United States

to demand a foreign government
investigate a U.S. citizen

and a political opponent.

We missed a huge opportunity

because
of the Ukrainian scandal

to work with Zelensky.

And also, those moments
indicated to Putin

that there was
an opportunity here.

You don't have to worry
about the U.S. government

coming down on you
like a hammer.

This is a wedge issue.

We could separate, you know,
the parties,

the bipartisan support.

If we didn't have that,

maybe we could have warned off
Russia's aggression.

- I can see you're angry
with President Trump.

Maybe a little bit, huh?

- A little bit?
[chuckles]

- Zelensky
is incredibly careful.

And, I mean, at that point,
you can tell he understands

that there's a huge trap here,

and he very carefully
walks around it.

And then in December of 2019

there's a summit meeting
in Paris.

President Macron of France,
Chancellor Merkel of Germany,

they're there with Putin
and Zelensky,

tried to mediate a solution
to the conflict in Donbas.

- I think Putin
kind of thought

he could play Zelensky,

but he challenged Putin
in a way that I think

Putin was kind of
surprised about.

- How does this play out now?

- Now we have the same Putin,

but we have
absolutely different Ukraine

and absolutely different mood
in your country.

- While Zelensky had coalesced

a new centrism in Ukraine,

the United States
had fallen into

a populist lap dance
of extremes.

We'd all been feeling
the unimaginatively toxic

divisiveness at home,

so to see Ukraine's vibrant,
young,

and united democracy downrage

of Russian tyranny
was chilling.

- If Putin goes
full-strength forward

using conventional weapons,

is Ukraine ready?

[rock music]

♪

[gunfire]

- [shouts in native language]

- [singing in native language]

- I want protect my country,
my mom, my family.

To protect democracy is
really important to everyone.

All Ukrainians,
we all is strong.

And I know that our future
is great and big

for everyone Ukrainian.

- In a 2005 address
to the Russian Federation

Putin said,
"We are a free nation,

"and our place
in the modern world

"will be defined
only by how successful

and strong we are."

His statement played out
as mockery

in the absolutely
authoritarianism

he'd adopted
in the years that followed.

But its true embodiment
was happening

in the sovereign Ukraine.

And we could feel
its simmering unification.

It was a different kind
of air I was breathing.

[drum thumping]

[dramatic music]

♪

- [singing in native language]

♪

[cheers and applause]

- So fucking great.

[cheers and applause]

[tense music]

♪

- There has been a dramatic
and worrying shift

in Russia's readiness to
attack in the past 48 hours.

Russia has now moved
rocket launchers

and long-range artillery
into firing positions.

- Vladimir Putin,
in a dramatic escalation,

announcing tonight
he's sending Russian troops

into eastern Ukraine.

♪

- Hello.

- Fernando,
we have a camera on you.

- Okay.

- What was your impression

of Putin's speech
the other night?

- But what is your
human perception

of his state of mind?

♪

- Up until last night
I had some faith

that maybe there is some plan
that Putin had in his mind,

bust just on his demeanor

he may not be rational,

and maybe we should seriously
consider the fact

that there's a madman
in Europe again.

- I don't think
he's an irrational man.

I don't think it was
a crazy speech.

- He challenged Ukraine's right
to exist.

- He makes all sorts
of absurd assertions,

like, you know,
"Ukrainians are attacking

Russian soil"
and that sort of thing,

but in some ways I think the
point that he's making is that,

"You Americans behave this way
for decades already.

And now I'm gonna behave
this way myself."

And I think Zelensky
has a problem,

because he's the target.

They want a regime change here.

- People would never support
some puppet--

- No, no, no.
- No.

- Isn't it ridiculous, though,

that they got to this point
because of their hubris.

Zelensky comes to power saying,

"I can make a deal.

"I'm not particularly wedded
to any ideological position.

"Language, politics,
don't care about it.

"Ukrainization,
don't care about it.

"I just want peace.

I want everybody in Ukraine
to live like what they want."

He says,
"Let's have a dialogue."

None of it works.

Putin says,
"Meh, meh, no, no deal."

I--you know--
- "You're a nationalist."

- Yeah, "You're a nationalist."

And he keeps calling him
a Nazi Jew.

Putin kept calling him
a nationalist so many times

that ultimately it's like,
"Okay, fine.

NATO, I'm gonna speak Ukrainian
in public all the time."

'Cause there's nothing that
the people in the Kremlin

are willing to do in order
to make a dialogue happen.

- Isn't it a story of, like
Russia's policy

against Ukraine
the last eight years?

Every single things
they've done

has completely backfired
on them.

- Totally.
- They thought they'd launch

a war to split
this country apart,

and it actually unified
the country.

And I think in my
interpretation last night is,

this is about vengeance.

He's angry.

This country wants to divorce
itself from Russia forever,

and he wants it back.

- Yeah, and there's
this ideology in Russia

Slovak people can't have
a democracy,

and, you know,
Russians actually believe it,

and then, if, you know,
if they have something

that's successful here, it is
an existential threat to them.

- We're looking
at something now,

we're gonna have air power,
missiles, cyberattacks,

jamming GPS.

It's--

- If it happens like that.

- But I think if--if--

- I think the chances
are up to 10% of--

- Ooh.

- I say, for me,
it's 50/50 right now.

- 50/50 of Kyiv on fire.
- Yes.

- I mean, I just think
the U.S. government

isn't worrying
about these things for nothing.

[tense music]

- Have you been to Russia?

♪

- In 2001 Jack Nicholson
and I had a film

at the Moscow Film Festival.

That night has become
a deviant memory.

♪

[ominous music]

♪

- Rising tension has prompted
the United States

to remove its personnel from
the U.S. embassy in Ukraine.

- The U.S. State Department

issuing its highest level,
level 4,

"do not travel" advisory.

[siren wailing]

- It felt increasingly
like Putin's special operation

was coming our way.

- The U.S. is rushing more
military aid to the country,

the first shipment

of a new $200 million
package arriving,

including ammunition.

- You are likely
in the last few hours

of peace
on the European continent

for a long time to come.

- Vladimir Putin
has just addressed

the Russian people moments ago
announcing what Putin called

the start of
a military special operation,

in his words,
to demilitarize Ukraine.

- We may be witnessing now
what is the beginning

of the bloodiest conflict
in Europe since World War II.

- Russian president
Vladimir Putin

has 150,000-plus troops
near the border.

- Russia has got forces
effectively

surrounding Ukraine
on three sides,

by land and sea and air.

- We were nearing the end
of our scheduled week in Kyiv

when we got the called
we'd been waiting for.

It was February 23, 2022,

when our first
in-person meeting

with President Zelensky
would happen.

We did not bring our cameras.

I myself am suspicious
of trusts built

on electronic communications.

I wanted the president
to have an opportunity

of sizing me up in person
before asking him to commit

to participate in our film.

By the end of our meeting
he did indeed commit to us

bringing out cameras
on the following day.

On any other day
I might have been ecstatic.

But this was not anyone's
average day on planet Earth.

And both this warm,
young president I'd just met

and his nation were in

a heart-wrenching degree
of danger.

[siren wailing]

- Sean, I just talked
to the security guy.

We have to leave the country
in the morning.

Yeah, so we'll try to meet
the president tomorrow.

- There's a big difference
in my conversation

about leaving one day early
versus leaving tomorrow.

I don't--I'm not prepared
to leave tomorrow.

Who do you think you are,
Geraldo Rivera?

[dramatic music]

♪

- The war in Ukraine
has begun.

- Three explosions rocked the
capital of Kyiv this morning.

A rocket hit
an apartment building

starting a fire.

- When was the last time
you heard something?

- Like, that was, like,
a half an hour ago.

I heard, like,
the sounds of explosions.

- If we need them
at some point,

who's providing vests,
helmets, and all that shit?

- Peter.
- Okay.

- I mean, we just got
a call that there was--

- They had two impacts
in town.

[loud explosion]

[alarm blaring]

They're hitting the airport.
- No.

- Yeah.
- Fucking A.

- Airspace shut down.

- I agree.

[tense music]

- What are we doing?

- Just going over
to the InterContinental,

find out what's going on,
because nobody here

seems to know what's going on.

No maps, nothing.
They'll have stuff...

- Fuck it.

- We're just going to go
to the InterContinental,

that hotel right there.
- Right. Right.

- To that?
- Just the hotel right there.

- To that hotel that is
on the opposite side?

- Yeah.

[horn honking]

♪

- And it says, like,
the recent rocket attacks--

- Rocket attacks?

I hear ya.
I hear ya.

- Here.
- Thanks.

I just heard
from Robert O'Brien.

He said, "Get the fuck out."

[dramatic music]

- The U.S. did hear
from the president

of Ukraine earlier tonight.

He's there.
He has not fled his country.

- He obviously is determined
to say.

[air raid siren blaring]

- Your attention, please.

There is second-level threat
in country.

We'll leave upon you
the decision

to leave the hotel or stay.

We'll help to organize this
at a point in the hotel.

In a crisis,
you will get the shelter.

In the announcement
of this threat,

use stairwell
down to the lobby.

Follow staff instructions.

You will be leaded
to the shelter place.

- The air raid sirens
had escorted us

into the day break
of the 24th.

The modern country
was suddenly at war.

It was a sad, surreal,
and shocking day.

But admittedly,
one also surrenders

to some exhilaration.

It keeps you awake when sleep
is a distant memory.

And though completely
unexpected,

the president's office
confirmed

that the president would still
keep our appointment.

♪

- President Biden unleashed
new sanctions against Russia.

- This aggression
cannot go unanswered.

America stands up to bullies.
We stand up for freedom.

- President Biden
has said again and again

no U.S. troops
will be involved in this war.

- I assumed that journalist
and quasi-journalists

around the world would scoff,

but there was not one cell
in my body

willing to prepare a question
for the president,

not on a day like this.

I hoped the film
would be useful.

That's about it.

♪

- This is the center
of the universe

for democracy today,
right now.

- Okay, we have
ten minutes for that.

[both speaking
native language]

[indistinct chatter]

♪

- We knew by that time
about the Russian commandos

that had taken the airport.

And that was only
about 15 kilometers away.

[explosion]

There was talk
about how long it would take

for the Russians
to completely encircle Kyiv.

It was imminent.

♪

- Hi.

- I'm well.

♪

- [speaking in native language]

- To be here at this time,
in this country,

with you,
with your countrymen,

I mean, there's so much
inspiration to be had here.

- Where does it end?
I mean, what does he want?

What does he--what is the--

- Rosa arrange this.
- Yes. Right.

[indistinct chatter]

- Please don't say
you were in the bunker.

- No.

- You say only
Office of President.

- Okay.

Oh, man.

- Right.
No, we're the good guys.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

Bye-bye.

- Yeah.

Who's the Zoom with?

- With Ksenia Sobchak--Russia--
who's staying in Moscow.

- Okay, but is it on TV
or just a person?

- On TV.
- You think it's TV?

- Yes.
- Russian TV?

- Russian TV.
- Okay.

All right, let me tell him.

- Thank you for coming out
to our broadcast.

Sean, tell us, please,
where are you, first of all?

- I am in Kyiv.

- Why you're in Kyiv?

Were you aware
of the threat

you're facing there?

- Well, I think all reasonable
people were considering

all possibilities.

- As far as I know,
as far as I understand,

today you met with
President Zelensky.

What were the things
you were discussing?

- What an unimaginable
position--

it is my thought--
that any man or woman

in this world could be in.

I believe with everything
in my heart

that this is a man of love,

intelligence, and courage,

and I still believe
love is proving itself

to be the most powerful weapon
on Earth.

- Protests tonight
across Russia

in more than 50 cities.

- How much resistance
is there to President Putin?

- These Russians

need to be the example
of peace

for the rest of the world.

This is the height
of that moment

in my lifetime, certainly,

and I think we can all assume,
perhaps, ever.

♪

[tense music]

Okay, any questions?
- Yes.

Is there a weapon in the bunch?
Where is it?

♪

- Oh, my God.

♪

- Russia's brutal war
on Ukraine

begins its second day.

♪

- Right now, I--

we've been, like,

for the last 12 hours,
we've been on the road

kind of zigzagging to get
to the Polish border

going a foot at a time
in cars on different roads,

because they
bombed out a bridge on one,

and it's just a lot of,
you know--

but I'm completely fine.

And we got to shoot
with the president.

Just moving.

- Ukrainian president
Zelensky

remains in the capital

despite threats
from the Kremlin

against his young family.

- Reports emerged the Americans
had offered an evacuation,

to which
Mr. Zelensky replied...

- How many kilometers
away are we, 20?

- About 28.

- Hey. Yeah, so we're just
going to abandon this.

There's no order to it.

♪

- Let's see if there's
a dirt road

behind those trees.

- All right, this is it?
This is all we're taking?

You're going to take that
backpack and your other bag.

- I got it.
- You need to put the backpack

on properly.

- Hey.
How you doing?

- Hey. How are you?

- It is, man.
It is. It is.

My wife's devastated.

- It's unbelievable.
It's surreal.

- It's crazy.

- Come on, Mick.

- Now they're just
picking up everyone.

- Yeah.

- I mean, it's unreal
what's happening.

- Yeah, man. Mickey.
- Yeah?

- All right, man.
- All right, man, cool.

[light music]

♪

- While the men of Ukraine
ages 18 to 60

were compelled
to stay in country

and get into the fight,

women and children dominantly
occupied these miles and miles

of cars inching their way
toward the Polish border.

These heroic women set off
to a different front line

and the heartbreak
of husbands, fathers,

brothers, sons,
and businesses

all left behind.

They fled for their
children's safety,

many without any certain
destination or support.

Just three days earlier,
they were you and me.

[air raid siren blaring]

- War has returned to Europe.

- Explosions and the exodus
are only the beginning.

all: Stand with Ukraine!

- The Russian invasion
of Ukraine

continues to spark an outcry.

[crowd chanting
in native language]

- People around the globe
are rallying

in solidarity with Ukraine.

- My feeling is,

I'd rather fail, you know,
trying in my little way

to be a uniter, you know, by
going and talking to somebody

who's already labeled me
full screen

the enemy of the state.

- And finally tonight,
the enemy of the state.

This week,
actor, activist,

and all-around
very angry man

Sean Penn
takes the honors.

You are this week's
enemy of the state.

- I flip between Fox and CNN.

And, like, each time,
it's like,

"Sean Penn's
going on 'Hannity.'"

- The least we can do to honor
what they're doing is try.

It was important for him
to get the word out

about what he had seen,
what he had heard,

what he had experienced.

- It's a pleasure.

Thanks for everything.
You've been great.

[light music]

♪

- If you were on this set,
99 out of 100 times,

we probably would be
in full disagreement, right?

- No question about that.

I don't trust you.
- [laughs]

Is there a reason
you didn't trust me?

- Yeah, there's a lot
of reasons I don't trust you,

but I don't think
that I've got time

to indulge my lack of trust,

which it becomes a petty thing

as people and babies
are being vaporized.

- A lot of the world didn't
think that Putin would do it.

I did think he would.

So you get there.

You're interviewing Zelensky
at this time.

Did he see this coming?

Did he believe
that this was real?

- Yes.

He is the face of something
that you see

in all the Ukrainians we saw
and talked to

whether they were in uniform,
out of uniform,

schoolteachers,
even children,

this extraordinary courage
that's come up.

It is clear to me that the
Ukrainians will win this.

The question is,
at what cost?

- In this buildup

I thought NATO countries
and Western European countries

and the U.S.
should have been arming

the Ukrainians for that moment.

- This could happen
tomorrow also.

We could get F-15s, F-16s in.

Then they can fly those
with three weeks of training.

They can fly the MiGs
and the Sus now.

- Poland offered--what was it--
28 or 29 MiGs.

- Yeah.

- Every report says Joe Biden
vetoed that.

Forget politics.

- Not everybody says
he vetoed it.

- Whoever vetoed it,
Ronald Reagan had a doctrine.

And the doctrine was in the
case of the former Soviet Union

invading Afghanistan
in the '80s,

he supplied Stinger missiles
to the mujahideen.

I support that doctrine.

I support the Trump doctrine
that,

if you're gonna fight a war
you push buttons

using new military weaponry
and technology,

and you bomb the shit out of--

- Okay, but I would argue...
- Hang on.

- You've made this political,

and now give me a chance
to respond to it.

- Hang on. I will.

- Because I'm not talking
about anybody's doctrine

that got us into
a lot of other crap.

- Republicans and Democrats,
they're all gung ho.

They start these wars.

They don't fight them
to win them.

- We--we absolutely agree
on that.

- And fight the war to win it.
- That's right.

- And that means
to defeat Russa--

- Or let them fight it
to win it, because they will.

- Well, that's what I'm saying.

Let the Ukrainians
fight themselves.

- Yeah, we agree.
You and I can argue all day.

But I look at you,
and I think you believe

in this country in your way.

I believe in it in mine.
- 100%

- When you step into a country
of such incredible unity,

you realize what we've all
been missing.

- You'll never talk politics
with me on this show, will you?

- We--we've all got to
figure out--

- Wasn't that bad.

Do you trust me now
more than you did?

- There's a lot
of physical therapy necessary

after a big car accident.

You don't get it all done
in a day.

- Our prayers are with
the innocent,

and I wish you luck
in helping them.

- And the heroes
who are fighting for them.

- Next time we'll battle over
Hugo Chávez or something fun.

- That's an interesting
conversation.

- All right.
- All right.

- Thank you for being with us.

- Former Speaker of the House,
Fox News contributor

Newt Gingrich is with us.

Your thoughts
on the conversation and more.

- That may have been
one of the most impactful

and amazing interviews
of your entire career.

- I'm going to talk
to Sean Hannity,

to Fox News, MSNBC.

I'm going to go do talks
at presidential libraries.

We're going to get
this message out

and help get
what Ukraine needs.

- You called
and said get the hell out,

get the F out, whatever.
- Yeah, yeah.

There's
going to be a serious attempt

at a quick decapitation strike
with the Russian paratroopers.

- The Ukrainians had something
to say about that, obviously.

- Every fundraiser I've been
to, every event I've been to

for the last several months,

people are up in arms
over Ukraine.

- I mean,
when we do the stories,

the ratings
go through the roof.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome

our distinguished panel.

[applause]

- It's amazing
to see the Ukrainians

and the resilience.

The Ukrainians are fighting
and fighting hard.

And you think Ukraine
can win this.

- I'd go further, and,
you know, I wager everything.

The Ukrainians
are going to win.

And what we're going
to be doing is saying,

"How many lives
did we let them lose?"

- You know, in Zelensky,
this is a leader

who is pretty remarkable
in this moment.

- Part of what makes him
so particularly extraordinary

is that in that courage,
he's the face

of so many Ukrainians.

This is leadership.

No one on the planet's
been tested

in leadership
like this one human being.

- Mr. President, what is it...
- Tonight

a world-exclusive interview.
- What is the situation?

- Thank you so much
for talking.

- Thank you very much.

- If you do win,
will Vladimir Putin survive?

- You know,
Ronald Reagan once said,

"I don't know how anyone
could have held this position

without having had
acting ability."

And he said, "The ability
to be a good actor

is to be yourself
when the camera comes on."

[sirens wailing]

When Zelensky got elected,
a lot of people

made the comparisons
to Ronald Reagan.

And, "He's an actor,
and he's not prepared."

And yet Zelensky
is just himself,

when the camera's on,
when it's off.

He is who he is.

This moment right now,
he is perfect.

- The Ukrainian president
has been praised

as a master of social media.

- I mean, one thing that's
very important to remember

is, he is a performer.

- Social media
has allowed him

to dominate
the information war.

- He has
the bully pulpit now.

People feel comfortable
that he has a vision now.

- All three of you
really being versed

in this over time,

take me back
before the invasion.

- 1999, I had an opportunity
to do a project in Ukraine,

and I was in Ukraine
until a month ago,

two days before the war.

- I was in 2008
when the second invasion

happened in Georgia.

We got in, and we were lucky
we got out.

- I was in Iraq in 2007,
2008 during the surge.

- So I was the main
interpreter for Lech Walesa.

So I was all over
Central and Eastern Europe.

Yeah, so I've seen
a lot of stuff.

And I've seen regression.

And it breaks my heart.

I was sent twice...

- What does the healing
look like

between Russians
and Ukrainians?

- Unless they kick
the Russians out

or the Russians take off

and literally give everything
back to the Ukrainians

that would be perhaps
the beginning,

except when you look at
the number of dead civilians

and children and women
and old people

that the Russians,
they've been killing.

[somber music]

- Go this way, guys.

♪

- Thank you very much
for talking with us.

What is your assessment?

- Taking Ukraine may come easy
to the overwhelming Russian...

- Like just come out
of an intelligence

with a Western official.

Ukraine is in a battle
for its life right now.

- Ukraine's capital city
of Kyiv

might soon fall
to Russian forces.

- Russia's actions
are outrageous.

Every hour of inaction now
is a threat to the lives

of Ukrainians.

Ukraine loses the war,
there will be no Ukraine.

And when stakes are so high
for us,

of course we will
keep fighting.

Whatever it takes.

- [speaking in native language]

[all speaking
in native language]

- The people are mobilizing.

- People signing up to fight.

People bringing in supplies,

anything they think
that will help

the Ukrainian war effort.

- We never seek to leave.

This our homes.

We defend our children,
family,

our buildings, our city,
and our future,

future of Ukraine.

[cannon booming]

- Can Ukraine outright win
this war?

- Ukrainian resistance

is having
a huge battlefield impact.

- There's a recording
between Ukrainian

and Russian forces.

- Snake Island,
and appears to have been

attacked by a Russian warship.

- The man behind those words

was awarded a medal
for his bravery.

- Now we've seen
impressive gains

by the Ukrainian army.

- Russia's flagship vessel,
the "Moskva."

- Ukraine says it hit the ship
with cruise missiles

launched from the coast.

- President Volodymyr Zelensky

visited at extreme risk.

- Tonight a stunning
breakthrough.

- How are the Ukrainians
pulling this off?

[indistinct chatter]

[laughter]

- Nobody believed in us.

- "Oh, they're going--
you know, they will fail."

And now the whole world
is basically watching.

- This moment in Ukraine to
represent a human phenomenon.

Like,
everyone who I was calling

was doing something
for the army.

It was such a huge network
of volunteers.

- Ukraine is extremely united
right now

for so many of us.

And it gives us strength,

and that's why we are not--
we are not afraid,

because we realize that they
have to kill all of us.

[indistinct chatter]

- In Ukraine
it's not difficult

to find a great diversity
in political opinion.

Just as in the U.S.
one can find

every impassioned
nationalist idea,

every impassioned
humanist idea.

And yet they've someone found
a complete recognition

in the interdependence
that allows for independence.

It's tangible.

- President Zelensky
called on the United States

to send more weapons.

- They asked for
heavier weapons faster.

- The Pentagon has rejected
a surprise offer from Poland

to fly all of its MiGs
to a U.S. airbase in Germany.

- Saying it risks setting off
a wider war with Russia.

- We continue.
We continue fighting.

We just need support.

I--I need to say to you,
because you're our friends,

that we still waiting.

We still talking every day

with international war leaders.

We need some help
by the weapons.

We still, for example,
waiting this jet

from Poland.
- Right.

- Thank you, Sean.
Thank you.

Thank you very much,
my friend.

- The people and government
of Poland

had opened their hearts
and borders

to some 8 million
Ukrainian refugees

but found challenges
when seeking

to provide fighter jets.

What did happen
with the MiG proposal?

- We don't want to act
unilaterally.

Such weapons
like the jet fighters,

it would require the NATO,

and our collective decision
was not to go

farther with our action
of delivering the MiGs.

- Some countries make the point
that Ukraine

should only be provided
with defensive weapons

and we should not receive
any offensive weapons.

The real point
is that any weapon

that is being used
by Ukrainian army

in the territory of Ukraine
is defensive by definition.

Because we are not using it
to attack anyone.

We are using it
to defend ourselves.

We don't have the feeling
that neither Poland

or the United States
are not willing

to do something for Ukraine.

But they do have differences
in understanding

who will assume
the responsibility

for making the decision.

Use the bloody weapons
necessary to win.

- Ukraine needs
weapon supplies.

We need heavy artillery,
armed vehicles,

air defense systems,
and combat aircraft,

anything to repel
Russian forces

and stop their war crimes.

Arm Ukraine now
to defend freedom.

- It's an apocalyptic vision.

- How much more
can the civilians withstand?

- Accounts of Russian abuses
are widespread.

- We saw undeniable evidence
of atrocities.

- New fallout and outrage

sparking more calls for
a war crimes investigation.

- I don't want to live
in a world

where a gangster with nukes
gets to dictate

what we have to live under.

I just don't want
to live in that world.

And the Ukrainians won't live
in that world.

It's a real war.
- Mm-hmm.

- It's in real life.

- We all thought that Kyiv
was going to fall

in two days,
and now here we are.

- Russia is aware that
it's not winning this war.

- The new narrative
is being born right now

about Ukraine,

this narrative
about very strong,

brave, courageous country.

- The recipe of victory

is Ukrainian stamina

and Western sanctions
and weapons.

These are the three elements
that will make us prevail.

- The Russians,
they have been bloodied.

- The Russians are taking
a tremendous number

of casualties,

probably taken
70,000 or 80,000 casualties.

- I hate to say this.

You know,
these Russian soldiers,

17, 18, 19 years old, right?

They're just cannon fodder.

And they're getting blown
to bits by the Ukrainians.

You've got
refrigerator trucks

and refrigerator train wagons

full of dead
Russian soldiers,

because Putin does not want
society to see this.

[somber music]

- Make no mistake, while
I believe they're winning,

the longer
that this war goes on,

the more likely it is

that it will start to fray
and fracture.

So Mr. Zelensky needs
to have an outright win here

pretty soon.

[computer line trills]

- I'm glad to see you,
Mr. President.

How are you holding up?

- Thank you.
- Thank you, Sean.

All the best.

- He looks like he's been
awake since we saw him.

- [chuckles]

- Because the Ukrainians
have performed so well,

because the democratic world
has consolidated

with regard to sanctions

and supporting Ukraine
with weapons,

it is not going to escalate
towards a conventional war

with NATO

because we provided
the Ukrainians with planes.

Since before this war,
I've been talking

about giving the Ukrainians
weapons to deter Russia.

We should be able to peer
around the corner

and see how this war
is going to unfold,

the fact that we're going
to have to step in

and provide more.

But we're going
to do it too late,

and we're going to miss
opportunities

to make this a short war.

We're going to miss
opportunities

to reduce the human toll
for Ukraine.

We're going to miss
opportunities

to really decrease
the risk for the U.S.

with a long-war scenario.

[somber music]

♪

- [indistinct].

- One part of the war
that we've gotten

very little insight into
is the battle for the sky.

- This rumor
of the Ghost of Kyiv.

- The Ghost of Kyiv.

- The Ghost of Kyiv,
they call it.

- The Russian Air Force
has not been able

to get air supremacy.

Can you just talk a little bit
about why that is?

- Because they have a fear
of our air defense.

But we need effective tools
to do this efficiently.

[laughter]

- How do the Russians
get stopped?

- The conflict will be
going on for some time,

and we need
the weapons flowing,

and without U.S. assistance,

that would be close
to not possible.

We need new fighter jets.

- That's much more exciting
for him than it is for you.

- Yeah.

[upbeat rock music]

♪

- We just watched your movie.

The next "Top Gun" movie
should be made in Ukraine.

- You know,
you put the world on notice

that Ukraine, you know,

isn't fucking laying down
for anything.

It's a real honor
to talk to you guys.

- Thank you for support.

[dramatic music]

- As this war went on,

it got more
and more difficult

to keep attention
and interest in it.

- Other stories
we're following for you...

- Will Smith clashed
with comedian Chris Rock.

- There's a time limit.

- The world watched
Johnny Depp's...

- And there's an energy limit

to what people can put
on the horrors

of something
taking place far away.

♪

For Sean,
it was very important

to get back to Ukraine...

♪

Get back
to see what's going on

and experience
what it was like now in June.

And we knew the important
thing was getting Sean

and Zelensky back together.

♪

[train whistle blows]

- Ukraine's president
is accusing Russia now

of bombing a crowded
shopping mall

in the eastern part
of the country.

[loud explosion]

- The capital, Kyiv,
once again in the crosshairs.

- This morning,
the most serious attack

on Kyiv in weeks,
two apartment blocks struck.

- In residential buildings
hit by rockets,

the number of civilian
casualties is rising.

- Is this it?

- Yeah, this is--
this is it.

♪

Who's coming?

♪

Wow.

This was the living room.

That was a bedroom
and restroom.

- Yeah, this is not
structurally sound anymore,

is it?
- No.

- So what are you doing now?

Just hearing out the things
that can be salvaged?

- Yeah, so actually,
I asked the military guys

to help me out.

They came here.
They clear everything.

They try to make sure that
we actually can take anything.

I tried to find, like,
really sensitive stuff,

like maybe pictures
or, like, some other stuff.

Yeah, that's it.

Like, I just wanted
to find something.

- What can we help you carry?
- Nothing.

It's done.
- It's done. Okay.

- It's done.

We took everything
that we could.

That's it.

Welcome to my home.

♪

- [indistinct].

- Because you can?

- Because I can.

- Thank you.

♪

- And here too.

[metal clanging]

♪

- I'm a little bit late.

Maybe not little.
Sorry. I'm so sorry.

- No, you're fine.

Once the invasion began,

what was the first moment

that you were able to check in
with your family?

♪

- In the night, I think.

In the night.
It was in the night.

And I had phone call.

My wife, I said,
"Tell children,

"detailing everything.

What does it mean,
the war with Russia?"

- The day of the invasion,
when you walked in,

I saw a change in you.

There was an air of,
you were born for this moment.

It was so clear

that we were in a moment of...

extreme history.

- Everybody has to be--

has to become older,
older at this moment

to understand what to do
and what we are doing,

because we need to live
in the real life,

not in fairy tale.

- There it is.

- So this is
the direct impact crater?

- Yeah.

- [indistinct].

And he's like wise...

political man.
[chuckles]

So even our children
began because of the war.

They began to speak, like,
you know,

to speak not like children.

♪

He understand why I am not
with him every day.

He said to me that,
"I understand you,

"and I think
that in the future,

maybe we can have something
like it was before the war."

He understand that it will not
be such way like it was.

Only now we know what country
we have to build.

I made a lot of decisions.

For example...

And we'll see the result
only after the war.

From this point,
we can't come back

to the political,
economical

securities strategy.

It couldn't be
just democracy,

just liberal attitude
to everything.

It couldn't be so.

But we should know
that soldiers with weapon

will be in the streets.

You know, how can everywhere
be people with guns?

Why you are looking
what is in my bag

when I'm entering shops?

Now we should do it.

It's a pity.

It's not about Ukraine.

That is the result
of all the wars.

- Yeah, this kind of stuff
is still shockingly stupid,

and the idea
that one evil little man

could be so generating
the force behind it,

it's just unimaginable

and has to change
somehow for--

I think about it for my kids,

because everything
that happens here

is going to affect

every other place
in the world today.

And I think that's the reason
that we're all

so invested in this,

and because Ukraine
is representing

the greatest aspirations
that we all share.

♪

- They will not stop...

never.

A lot of people die.

And...
[sighs, clears throat]

so--so it's tragedy,

but I understood that this
tragedy result of the war.

I understood it.

They will destroy everything.

People want to forget
what's going on in the East.

Believe me, now they destroyed
everything on the East.

[indistinct chatter]

We need to go and talk

to the soldiers
who are fighting the fight

and spend some time
on the front line.

- Yes, it's possible.
We could help.

We're very interested
to show the world

what's going on here.

We are fighting.

We destroyed
a lot of Russian troops,

and they destroyed us.

That is the war between two.

They are not waiting,
and we are fighting.

They will dig in.

So that is the problem.

We should press on them.

That's very difficult
with such,

I think, slowly way

of getting weapons.

With such speed...

you can't move forward.

[somber music]

♪

- Ukraine is intent
on pushing Russian troops

back to their border
with the help

of advanced
long-range missile systems

en route
from the United States.

- The U.S. is sending
artillery rocket systems

known as HIMARS.

- The weaponry includes
the M142

high-mobility
artillery rocket system.

- Once you fire
from a position,

does that immediately mean
you're gonna move positions?

I think that because of our
proximity now

to active combat, that's where
our sights should be set.

[tense music]

♪

- Let's put that
in this truck.

- Yeah, we're gonna do this.

- Let's do that.
- Okay.

- [speaking in native language]

Okay.

♪

- Up.

- Okay.

[distant explosion]

So that means
we're getting close.

♪

During last ten days...

During last ten days.

Because shells are going
without stopping.

No stop,
shelling without stopping,

any stopping,
different kinds.

And it's, you know...

that is what we have.

- Russia is intensifying
its assault

in the east of Ukraine.

- And the Ukrainians
may have to decide do they,

as it were,
dig in in Severodonetsk,

or do they give up
the city now

and leave while they can?

♪

[distant explosion]

♪

[distant explosion]

♪

- Can you speak
to what importance it was

to the solidary of this fight

that the president stayed
in Kyiv?

[distant explosion]

[chimes clanging]

- These Russians,
they killed a lot of people.

And it was, for me, shock,

also for everybody,
that they--

[speaking in native language]

- Raped, yeah.

When they began,
when they raped

some women and some children,
it was fuck--

I can't find,
you know, right words

and never find.

I will never find for this,
because it was shock.

So many children,
so many blood.

♪

- Russia is bombing
kindergarten schools,

maternity hospitals.

♪

- They are crimes.
They're not really soldiers.

They did crime

against the humanitarian...

- Right.
- Values.

- Latvian MPs
have declared Russia

a state sponsor of terrorism,

saying its invasion
of Ukraine

amounted to genocide.

- Ukrainian officials saying

there are 1,000
new war crimes investigations

now underway in just one
newly liberated city.

- For those who've lived
under occupation,

it's been hell.

- There is
very serious erosion

of moral values in Russia,

which is dangerous
for the whole world.

- History will remember
and talk about Zelensky.

He went
beyond the expectations,

went beyond what anybody could
have imagined he would do.

But Russia's
not going anywhere.

This toxic environment

doesn't go away
for many, many years.

- What are the challenges
in the short term?

- To fly,
you need two wings.

Don't give me one wing
and waiting,

when you will fly?

I will never fly
with one wing.

I need two,
and if you want me to fly now,

I need two now.

So we should win now, jointly,
with all the world now.

♪

- It's already
economic warfare,

sanctions, energy warfare.

It's refugee flows
destabilizing countries.

[air raid siren blaring]

What happens if Russia
starts to fracture,

Chechens start to break off...

It's a recipe for the Chinas
of the world

to make territorial grabs,

for the Irans of the world
to make territorial grabs.

- If you want to keep China
out of Taiwan,

keep Ukraine in the fight.

Push Russia out,

and keep that fight
from coming to us,

'cause if Ukraine loses,
we lose.

If Ukraine fails, it's not
just a failure for democracy.

It's a failure
for the global economy,

because we're seeing
how dependent we all are

not just on oil and gas,

but also, global supply chains
are affected.

So their fight is our fight,

and the tip of the spear
right now

is the fight in Ukraine.

- And if these people

are ready to kill children,

are ready to kill civilians,

why will they stop?

For what?

- If Ukraine not stop
the Russia

and not win,

they not a reason
to stopping in the future.

Next will be Moldova.

Next will be Lithuania,
Poland.

It means that it will be war
against NATO.

And it means that,
once again,

American soldiers

will be sent
for the new war in Europe.

I went many cities,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston

what I could with
those money I had,

not a lot of money,

to understand,
what does it mean, democracy?

What does it mean, feeling--
this feeling...

I loved to run.

Especially in the morning,

you could understand
where you live.

I wanted very much to go
to the country

where freedom--
to find this feeling.

Ukrainians so long time

wanted to be free.
- Hmm.

- And Ukrainians
didn't understand--me also.

We didn't understand
that we have to pay for that.

♪

And we didn't understand
the high price of it.

This understanding of freedom
came with a war,

with the fighting
for this freedom.

For Americans to understand
what's going on here

and to understand the price,

they can feel it only
if they will be on the war,

and I don't want them
to fight in the war.

They had already--had already
many different wars,

many different dead guys
and soldiers

on different wars.

If we will not win now,

Americans will fight

in some years with this enemy.

Can tyranny win or not?

What will be the end
of this war?

If I fight, I should win,

because if you
are not ready to win,

don't fight.

♪

[indistinct chatter]

[laughter]

- One year ago,
we interviewed you,

and you said what?

And...
yeah, yeah.

[train horn blows]

[gentle music]

- I hope, I really hope

that when he's an old man
and I'm an even older one

that I might be sitting
with him

in a peaceful and prosperous
free Kyiv

laughing like a couple
of kids

at what William Saroyan called
"the infinite delight

and mystery of life."

[gentle music]

♪

You have a job as a head
of state to lead...

♪

To inspire,
to communicate,

to sacrifice...

♪

It's been said
that leadership's

first responsibility
is to define reality

in courage in the face
of unspeakable terror.

♪

Volodymyr Zelensky
has done that.

♪

And he's done it despite
a next-level problem set.

He'd done it for his country.

He'd done it for his children.

And he'd done it for ours.

Going to Ukraine, I got filled
with this feeling of unity.

That's not because
I'm closing my eyes

to what the cost of it is
right now.

It was about how they were
paying it

in common cause.

The weapons and ammunition
are not being supplied quickly

or completely,
yet Ukrainians battle on

with otherworldly courage
in a freedom war

for sovereignty
and the right to dream.

And we in the United States,

if we don't find
common cause,

then we're only going
backwards.

And we're gonna kill
each other.

[gentle music]

♪

[The Smile's
"Free In The Knowledge"]

♪

- ♪ Free in the knowledge

♪ That one day this will end

♪ Free in the knowledge

♪ That everything is change

♪ And this

♪ Was just a bad moment

♪ We were fumbling around

♪ But we won't get caught
like that ♪

♪ Soldiers on our backs

♪ We won't get caught
like that ♪

♪

♪ A face using fear

♪ To try to keep control

♪

♪ When we get together

♪ Well then who knows

♪ If this

♪ Is just a bad moment

♪ And we are fumbling around

♪

♪ But we won't get caught
like that ♪

♪ Soldiers on our backs

♪ We won't get caught
like that ♪

♪

♪ I talk to the face
in the mirror ♪

♪ But he can't get through

♪ I said,
"It's time that you deliver ♪

♪ We see through you"

♪ I talk to the face
in the mirror ♪

♪ But he can't get through

♪ Turns out
we're in this together ♪

♪ Both me and you

♪

- Mr. President, what's the
first thing you're gonna do

once Ukraine wins this war?

[chuckles]

[upbeat music]

♪

- [singing in native language]

♪