<Anchor> In
response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's mention of a nuclear attack, US President Biden said it would never happen.
Let's connect Washington and see the reaction of the United States.
Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung, President Biden has asserted that there is no need to worry about nuclear war.
<Reporter>
Today (1st), the White House has been focused on analyzing Russia's nuclear threat all day long.
White House press secretary Jen Saki said that nuclear war is unpredictable and that the world is taking steps to reduce this threat.
President Biden is due to give his first official state-of-the-art address tomorrow at 11 am Korean time, with the focus on the Ukraine crisis.
President Biden tweeted earlier that "I reaffirm that Russia is ready to impose harsh penalties if it does not take steps to ease tensions."
He asserted that there was no risk of nuclear war.
[Biden/President of the United States: (President, should Americans be concerned about nuclear war?) No.]
<Anchor>
Russia and Ukraine negotiated for the first time since the war, and the United States analyzed all who came out as the Russian delegation. would you have done
<Reporter>
Most of the people who are leading the Russian negotiating team this time are classified as moderate negotiators who value diplomacy.
So, we are concentrating on understanding the intentions of the US as well, whether it is a negotiation or a deceptive strategy based on the moderates.
There are also people who have deep ties with Korea.
The head of the negotiation group, aide to President Putin, is from Ukraine, and served as the chairman of the Russian-Korean Parliamentary Cooperation Group for three years from 2007 to 2007, and has visited Korea several times.
Slutsky, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who attended the meeting, is also a representative of the pro-Korean party and has visited the Korean National Assembly several times.
<Anchor>
And I heard that there are not only the president but also many lawmakers left in Ukraine.
Didn't Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung interview one of them?
Please tell me about it.
<Reporter>
I heard firsthand about the horrors of the war from Rep. Lecia Vasilenko, who remains in the capital, Kiev, where massive air strikes are still continuing.
Senator Vasilenko said the current situation is that those who remain in the capital Kyiv are enduring a nightmare air strike.
[Lesia Vasilenko / Ukrainian Member of Parliament: The nightmare repeats every night.
Mothers like me have to take their kids to the basement and subway to spend the night.
There have been dozens of airstrikes in Ukraine in the past 24 hours.] He
also claimed that the Russian military is using weapons of mass destruction, such as vacuum bombs, prohibited by international law, in densely populated areas of Ukraine, killing civilians indiscriminately.
[Lesia Vasilenko/Ukrainian lawmaker: The Russian army is killing innocent civilians.
They are using weapons banned by the Geneva Conventions.
They're hitting densely populated areas.]
Putin's nuclear threat is evidence he's panicking.
[Lesia Vasilenko/Ukraine MP: Bullying with nuclear weapons is a sign that he is in a state of panic.
Ukraine is very close to Russia.
The Russian people are bound to suffer from a nuclear explosion.
This shows that Putin is not interested in his own people.] The
Russian army also said that the bodies of fallen soldiers are not retrieved.
[Lesia Vasilenko/Ukrainian lawmaker: The bodies of Russian sons and husbands are decomposing in Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops have been picking them up.
Because we are civilized, not barbarians.]
President Zelensky responded to some criticisms that the war was triggered by Russia's provocation.
[Lesia Vasilenko / Ukrainian Member of Parliament: It is absurd.
Because Ukraine was invaded in 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine dates back to 2014.
Please remember this.]
Rather, it was evaluated that President Zelensky had become a pivotal point in bringing about national resistance.
[Lesia Vasilenko/Ukraine Member: President Zelensky puts his life at risk, but he is fighting all acts of aggression in all regions.]
He emphasized that he will remain in his homeland like President Zelensky to the end.
[Lesia Vasilenko/Ukrainian Member of Parliament: I am a member of the National Assembly.
I took an oath to the people and the nation.
I want my children to be raised in Ukraine, a free and democratic country, and not in the Russian Kingdom.]
A rifle was placed next to Senator Vasilenko.
[Lesia Vasilenko/Ukrainian Member of Parliament: (Do you have any defensive weapons?) I have an AK47 rifle and a PM gun.
It was paid because we were in a real crisis.]
He said that the way the United Nations sent troops through the resolution of the General Assembly during the Korean War during the Korean War could be a solution to the Ukraine crisis.
[Lesia Vasilenko / Ukrainian Member of Parliament: It was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1950 and resulted in sending peace-keeping troops to Korea.
This is the model we must follow right now.]
This is the reason why the international community must end this war in solidarity.
[Lecia Vasilenko/Ukrainian MP: If the international community does nothing to stop Putin, he is encouraging other nuclear dictator leaders to do the same.
Because there are no sanctions, and there will be nothing.]
(Video coverage: Oh Jeong-sik, Video editing: Park Jin-hoon)
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