Ukrainian President Zelenskyy sits down with NBC News’ Richard Engel in an exclusive interview. The president addressed the country’s counteroffensive operation against Russia, warning that if Russia were to lose this offensive it’d lose the war.
» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
» Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.
Connect with NBC News Online!
NBC News App: https://smart.link/5d0cd9df61b80
Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621
Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC
Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC
Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC
Get more of NBC News delivered to your inbox: nbcnews.com/newsletters
#NBCNews #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
Zelensky is a good joke.👎🐀🤮🐷💩🤡🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
Ukraine 🇺🇦 will prevail 💪 !
Doubt it
They wont.
Ukraine is dead, if it loses the war it shall become part of Russia, if it wins the war, it is completely pawned or sold to Western companies, so no matter what /Ukraine is finished! all Zelensky is doing to get rid of the Ukrainians because he needs the lands he sold.. free and unencumbered
We hold Chinese 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping accountable for the damages caused by the Russian invasion
because of his *”no limits”* support for Putin.
Just how are you doing that lol, China will crush you in an instant amigo.😊
GOD BLESS UKRAINE!!
The LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL.
Repent and believe in Jesus Christ while there’s still time
I believe in Jesus. But not the corrupt Jesus that is marketed to sheep
Gandalf mops the floor with jesus
@Nara Kanakura But Jesus owns the mop, mopper, the floor, the house… and HE has the final say.
Does darkness ever overwhelm the light, or does the light simply wash away the darkness. ✝️
Slava Ukraini
ALL OUR ADMIRATION TO ZELENSKYY AND PUTIN.
Can we stop sending money to Ukraine
@Machine Man what about the rest of the country
No, you can’t. Read about the conditions under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. The USA acted as a guarantor of peace for Ukraine, and now that Ukraine has been attacked, you must support us to the end.
@Funny Shorts Online lol support your self we aren’t the world police
@Nick that’s not how it works, honey
@Funny Shorts Online ok explain to us how it works since you are clearly a beacon of intelligence.
Sad to see our money being wasted.
Ukraine is an extreme failure; cesspool of corruption used to cover up Biden’s money laundering and child trafficking operations.
@paulerxxI understand them perfectly fine. What I don’t understand is the wasteful spending for a wasteful cause.
and lives taken. Others ruined. For what?
@joseph wilson the only reason Biden got involved with Ukraine was to launder money and hide the child trafficking going on
@Bruce Campbell You calling it wasteful highlights your lack of understanding, do you understand that?
Comedians love speaking derp derp derp…
So what do you do
Poor Zalinsky he looks like hes aged 10 years. Dude has his work cut out for him. I hope Ukraine keeps up the good work and dominates Russia like they have been. Make sure to comment below if you love Ukraine
Their is no winning In war
to much Colombian stuff.. sniffolo lives on it
He so busy bust still has enough time for a line up and I’m not just talking about a visit from the barber
@Mo Rah sniffolo as he is known, has become honorary representative of Colimbia..and famous for his other line…gimmme maannnny
The Ukraine war has bored everyone for 1 year and 111 days.
Shoot Putin and US arms dealers NOT everyone else.
Go protest outside the houses of Oil executives.
Protest the problem NOT the public.
FAILED…..Better send in more troops for the MEAT GRINDER.
If Mr. Putin’s war isn’t stopped in the Ukraine, is eastern Europe then endangered by Vladimir Putin
So much losses and destruction from both sides that no one is winning at all. It is so sad.
Essential correct, this war has continued too long. ☮️🇺🇸
Вы с ума сошли? Какие потери у россии кроме солдат? Их территория не страдает, их мирные люди в безопасности! Уничтожают Украину и украинцев. Это геноцид.
@With a primary focus on maintaining world peace An undeclared war fuelled and funded by the western allies, not in aid of the humanitarian crisis they created, simply one goal 👍 to militarise Russias southern border if successful .
exactly only the industrial war complex is making money of this
VERY BUSY?, DOING EXACTLY WHAT?, LYING TO THE WORLD?,
Running the Ukrainian resistane
@With a primary focus on maintaining world peace you really want to be lying for a liar?, you really think ukranine president is a fighter?, you think he has any type of strategy other than beg for money and weapons?, your welcome to an option, your welcome to wake up and realise the truths, not much room for foes and liars, IS THERE?, wef are liars, carbon is from nature, its got slightly warmer because the smogs have been clearing, its not because of carbon that water helps grow and keep alive carbon breathing and burning not just fossils the water helped live breath and eat, you see?, Russia is fighting for freedom not ukraine as you been made to think,,, you think we should put up with wef control?, THINK AGAIN. Have A Nice Day…
Biden’s Afghanistan pull out and transition into Ukraine Has been going on for 834 days
🤡
GO TEAM!
Yeah!!
Team? What team? Team give Zelensky millions more to put cocaine up his nose?
Glory to Ukraine. God hellp this brave nation
ok bot
They need to just get along
Every time there is an opportunity to help an american family, Biden does the opposite. Billions that would have lifted up american families instead sent to fund a war and killing. Disgraceful. Never forget Biden always put america last
This war cannot be won by fighting! Make peace and stop this insanity!
Underrated comment. ✌ ♥
Putin can withdraw and establish peace
This war can be easily ended if the russians leave the Ukrainian lands and take away all their weapons and their soldiers. If a burglar broke into your house, would you negotiate with him about the territory of your house? Like a burglar takes the kitchen and lives there, and you keep the other rooms. Is that how it works for you?
I don’t like this junkie wannabe dictator.
Stop sending out tax payers money to Ukraine
Zelensky gonna get kicked to the curb soon. Probably after nato realizes this counter offensive will be a complete failure
We are done with this ! No one believes he is a good guy. They are all corrupt
Can’t wait until Russia finishes Ukraine and sends this Western proxy puppet packing, the US government pre-planned this proxy war years ago and needs to be held accountable for the killing…!!!
“Fighting to defend themselves”….yet we’re paying for all of it. I’d argue that most people who defend them were also against the southern states’ attempt to breakaway from the union…seems hypocritical.
What? 🤨
That’s our understanding too, and the veiw held by most of the western modern military forces. 🤞🌍
Waste of our taxes
I don’t trust zelensky. Too coincidental how oligarchs helped him get an office and how do you spell Prussian up until the word started. The guy seems sketchy
Zelenskyy is lying as usual. Meanwhile in WaPo article “On front lines of Ukraine counteroffensive, soldiers pay heavy price” by Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk, Ukrainian soldier described this last Zelenskyy offensive in this way: “There were fewer than 50 men in the unit, and 30 did not return — they were killed, wounded or captured by the enemy. All five of the unit’s armored vehicles were destroyed within the first hour. We were shelled with mortars from three sides. We couldn’t do anything.” In the first 10 days of this long-awaited offensive Zelenskyy managed to waste dozens of tanks (including cutting-edge German Leopard 2A6s) and hundreds of armored vehicles (including Bradley) along with 7 500 of hapless Ukrainian conscripts on the mine fields, hit by Russian artillery or anti-tank missiles without even getting to the first main line of Russian defense . Adding insult to injury Russians captured Leopard 2A6 and Bradley. Ukrainian army has always been poorly led and marred by political interference and pervasive corruption, but now when it lost almost all experienced soldiers every Zelenskyy operation turns into a wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian conscripts like in Bakhmut.
How many words and nothing true 😮
@JLocke573few month ago Massad came out with documents leak that Ukraine loosing mostly 7-8:1 in some cases 9-10:1, only in Bachmut Russia had bigger losses(Ukrainian loses was 5:1), there is a reason why Americans politicians said they’ll fight Russia until last Ukrainian
Путінський підлабузник! Наш Заслужений і Зеленський найкращі! І нам, з України краще видно де і що діється, бо це наші чоловіки, брати та сестри боронять країну !
@Joshua Paul 🤣😂🤣😂you’re a joke of a bot
@BitterSweet about lying, is truth evident in your voice?
Hes going to end up like all the other leaders america pumps full if guns and money. Dead. Ghadffi, bin laden, saddam. Next…zelenski once america is done using him
War is money, this country is being demolished and its just ruins. How it be able to pay the NATO DEBT??😢
Here for his monthy welfare check from the US.
How did you end up with it
I can not comment on the offensive before talking to my generals Austin and Millie
not our war not our war
I always love hearing from him! And honestly he’s right about weapons being delivered to Ukraine too slowly. It’s a shame. We can’t just give Ukraine enough weapons to not lose. We need to give them enough to WIN. There’s a difference. Defeating russia as soon as possible saves more Ukrainian lives.
🇺🇦🇺🇲 our hearts are with you from USA❤️
Not just your hearts, your hard earned tax dollars are keeping it going and keeping the war machine alive 😂
💪🫶🏻🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦👍✌️👍👏👏👏🇱🇹
Hey NBC.. He’s right.
Glory to Ukraine, natural, tech and military disasters to russian
Putin is ‘a deranged, bloodthirsty dictator
He will only stop when Ukraine stop him ✌
One of his own will take him out. It’s just a matter of time.
Russia is a Terrorist state !!! 😡😡😡
Omg another new counteroffensive
This is going to make us give him more money 😂
who is it, us??
I like how you use “make” like we are required to be the largest arms supplier. Oh wait, we just are, so we have an obligation to protect our interests.
It’s over now😅
Ukranians lost almost all Western tanks and armored mashines, got nothing serious and retreated😅
Can you, please, send some more money and tanks there to waste? 😁
Meanwhile Putin can’t even feed his soldiers.
@Teaspiracy Oh, good old naive funny Ukranian fakes🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can you, please, send me a toilet and a washing machine to Moscow? 😅😅😅
You know, Rissians buy ammo from Iran. We’re going out of missiles and drones soon. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Russia is so poor, we have no food. Russia can’t get any electronics from China as it’s prohibited by USA 😅😅😅😅😅
Is it correct? Don’t I forget something? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stealing all our tax money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ruZZia is a terrorist state and they can do EVERYTHING they have ability to, and not only in Ukraine. including nuclear strikes on NATO countries. NATO is underestimating the danger and they are too passive with that
Zelsenkyyyyyy and Biden are war criminals.
I’m shocked how many russian propagandists are in the comments. Hey russians! Your bot farm is awesome, guys, but that’s all you’ve got 😂😂😂
They would likely spend billions on worldwide propaganda that russia is the best place in the world instead of spending this money on, you know, something useful. That is o bizarre…
To bad Ukraine don’t have fighter next an attack helicopters. To cover the ground offensive
All lies. The Ukrainians are getting beaten every day.
It is so unfair at how the world looks on as if no other country should step in and fight Russia. How repulsive that Ukraine has to fight this insane man and country by himself.
What? They’ve had more help than god could give…. And they are still losing..😂😂😂😂😂😂
@birdlynn417
Join the frontline then as “voluntary”, nothing stop you west already found loopholes get directly involved while claim they aren’t, it isn’t only Ukraine’s fighting or they would lost long ago, are you living under a rock.
What are you talking about? Literally the whole west is fighting Russia. What more help do they need?
@Steven Muvunyi ha-ha, the whole west is fighting Russia? Cowards we all are, just as long as your country and my country isn’t being bombed and our people getting killed. Some help. It is insane, all of this, and Putin has the power and control, and we all pretend that he doesn’t.
Ukraine has lost 8,000 soldiers. How many more soldiers can Ukraine afford to loss?
So a new counter offensive upon the other counter offensive that was supposed to start in spring, which eventually started in the summer and has been catastrophic in the first week? I think I understand now
remember baghdad bob
The catastrophic part may be overstated by media desperately seeking eyeballs. “Reporting from ukraine” indicates that the “lost” tanks were eventually brought back for repair, and most were only moderately damaged, such as treads needing replacement. And other than a few attacks that failed, much of the fighting is early probing of defense or end up with miles of ukranian gains.
Why did everyone abruptly forget that in 2014, in a country called Ukriana, terrorists seized the government and gained access to power? All zabli military takeover of the country?
Why does everyone pretend that this is a normal phenomenon and nothing has happened in Ukraine?
Let me remind you that in 2014 Ukraine was seized by terrorists by military seizure, the legal president fled from death, and the regions who did not agree with the seizure of the country, the new terrorist “government” having access to the army began to suppress and seize by force. Nobody remembers this?!
Why does everyone pretend like everything was normal there?
According to all international laws, in 2014 the country of Ukraine ceased to exist, the constitution and laws on equality and democracy were violated! Why does everyone pretend that Ukraine is still a country.
After the seizure of the country, the terrorists held their fake elections in the hope of making themselves legitimate, but these are fakes, they still exactly remained terrorists!
Now these terrorists have attacked Russia and all the euros are silent, as if this is normal.
It is not normal.
Stop calling Ukraine a country.
In 2014, there was an armed seizure of power in this “country”! Not democratically with a vote, but an armed seizure with weapons and militants !!! People with weapons broke into the parliament, the president’s house, the administrative building, seized everything by force.
Those who seized power with weapons now rule Ukraine!
They are not legal!
You Prepare. The American people. So you can give another 5 billion to him. 70%. American people you don’t like this lunatic.
All precidenti rusean ukrean now me orders
War side of all
Well done President Zelenskyy! May God bless you! May the Immaculate Heart of Mary intercede with the Almighty for an end to Putin’s regime, and for a just peace for Ukraine with the return of all its territories including Crimea. May all who have committed war crimes be held to account, and may all Ukrainian children who have been kidnapped by Russia be returned. May Russia pay for all the damage it has caused Ukraine.
Cocaine snorting criminal is so awesome. Stealing millions from suckers.
God Bless Zelensky 🇺🇦
@Teaspiracy you sure it’s not the devil?
now we see European people that Zelensky is carrying out terrorist actions! he killed people, ☝️☝️ he shot the nuclear power plant with artillery to cause an accident☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ they steal the money☝️☝️ the leaders distribute the paychecks of dead people☝️☝️ don’t mind neutralizing it, the European leaders will applaud!! ☝️☝️☝️☝️ they started worshiping Hitler’s symbols, these people must be cleaned out of Europe, thank you Russia on behalf of European people from the Netherlands!!
Psychopath
BS
Take out zelensky already
ZELENSKY THE DISGUSTING WAR MONGERING PUPPET NATZI
LONG LIVE RUSSIA FOREVER!!!🙏♥️🇬🇧
🤡
I wish this would end.
Did he have cocaine spilling out his nose?
Snorting millions in cocaine will do that. We are paying for it.
More NATO cannon fodder to fertilize Donbass land😂
We’re supposed to ask Barack obama an Paul Whelan how long it takes to blow themselves for three shekels
🇷🇺❤️🇷🇺❤️🇷🇺❤️🇷🇺❤️
New World Order Loser.
Who belive this clown
D-day started slow also~Ukraine hit many ruZZi’s weapon depots in the last 24 hours. Ukraine will break thru soon! Troops will go home…putin will call it mission accomplished…no other choice!
Тут все сидят проросийские, которые жируют на деньги Эвропы, возвращайтесь на россию,и роскажите пукину какой не успешный контрнаступ в Украины😂😂😂типа Киев за три дня, Украину за,,,,две недели,,,и про тегеранские дроны ,и ракеты по жилых домах,взрыве дамбы,пугание ядеркой,россия же,,,,,,,сильная,,,,😂😂
🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦UKRAINE 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Man i would be embarrassed to be a Russian with a dirty war criminal for a leader. Yuck