TREASURE IS ALIVE .

>>> TODAY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY SPOKE BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS STRESSING THE IMPORTANCE FOR THE WEST TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING UKRAINE'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE RUSSIAN INVASION IN.

>> WELL RUSSIA IS PUSHING THE WORLD TO THE FINAL WORK, UKRAINE IS DOING EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE NO ONE IN THE WORLD WILL FEAR TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM ANY NATION.

>> UKRAINE'S FORMER PRESIDENT WAS HERE IN CHICAGO.

HE WAS A KEY FIGURE IN THE UKRAINIAN MOVEMENT TOWARD INDEPENDENCE AND DEMOCRACY AND PARIS SCHUTZ CAUGHT UP WITH HIM THIS MORNING.

>> THAT IS RIGHT.

HE SERVED AS PRESIDENT TRUMP 2005, UNTIL 2010 OF UKRAINE AND WAS FAMOUSLY PRO-WESTERN, PRO- DEMOCRATIC.

A LEADER THAT CAMPAIGNED AGAINST A PRO- RUSSIAN CANDIDATE.

A LOT OF PEOPLE REMEMBER THAT HE WAS POISONED DURING HIS CAMPAIGN AND 2004 MOST CERTAINLY AT THE HANDS OF THE KREMLIN AND ALMOST DIED.

AFTER LOSING THE ELECTION, THERE WERE MASSIVE PROTESTS IN UKRAINE CALLED THE ORANGE REVOLUTION.

HERE THEY ARE MEMORIALIZING THAT.

HE WON THAT BUT CONSTANTLY HAD TO CONTEND WITH THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITARIANISM AND HERE IS VLADIMIR PUTIN APPEARING BEFORE CONGRESS.

NOW HE IS IN CHICAGO FOR VARIOUS EVENTS.

WE MET UP WITH HIM AT PERHAPS THE IDEAL PLACE AT THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE FAR NORTHWEST SIDE.

HE WAS WITH HIS WIFE AND INTERPRETER, CHICAGO NATIVE WHO HE INTERVIEWED LAST WEEK.

THIS COMES AS BIDEN AND VLADIMIR ZIELINSKI DELIVERED THE SPEECHES WE HEARD.

I ASKED HIM WHETHER HE FEARS AN EROSION OF WESTERN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE AS RUSSIA'S WAR DRAGS ON.

HERE WAS HIS ANSWER INTERPRETED BY HIS WIFE.

>> EVERY MONTH, EVERY YEAR, WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BATTLE IS ABOUT AND IT IS A BATTLE NOT JUST ABOUT UKRAINE BUT ABOUT EVIL.

IF WE WANT PEOPLE TO HAVE FREEDOM AND SURVIVAL, I THINK ALL PEOPLE WANT TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY AND WILL UNDERSTAND THE JUSTICE OF THE WAR.

>> I ALSO ASKED HIM TO TAKE US INTO THE MIND OF VLADIMIR PUTIN AND WHAT HE IS ULTIMATELY AFTER.

>> HE HAS ONE MOTIVE.

ONE THING THAT MOTIVATES HIM AND THAT IS STAYING IN POWER.

>> HE IS WILLING TO KILL THOUSANDS, TENS OF THOUSANDS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO ACHIEVE HIS GOAL.

>> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ].

>> THIS IS A VERY SMALL PERSON WHO IS RUINING RUSSIA.

>> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] .

>> HE IS SOMEONE WHO HAS KILLED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF OUR UKRAINIANS AND HAS CAUSED MILLIONS TO HAVE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY FOR SAFETY.

>> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] .

>> VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS ONLY ACCOMPLISHED ONE THING AND THERE IS ONLY ONE THING HE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR AND THAT IS TO BE THE CREATOR OF GREAT TRAGEDY.

>> I ASKED ABOUT THE POISONING WHEN HE WAS CAMPAIGNING AND 2004 AND ASKED WHEN HE KNEW IF HE HAD BEEN POISONED AND HOW HE WAS ABLE TO STAY ALIVE.

>> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] .

>> WHEN I LEFT THE DINNER THAT WAS ORGANIZED BY THE SECRET SERVICE AS OF OUR COUNTRY -- >> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] .

>> I REALIZED I WAS STARTING TO UNDERGO A TYPE OF PAIN I HAVE NEVER FELT BEFORE IN MY LIFE .

>> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] .

>> AND THEN, WHEN I WAS VISITED SEVERAL DAYS LATER BY THE HEAD OF THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT -- >> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] .

>> AND HE SAID, IF YOU WANT HIM TO LIVE, TAKE HIM TO A GOOD HOSPITAL.

>> [ SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE ].

>> THAT IS WHEN IT HIT ME THAT IT WAS NOT SOMETHING SIMPLE HAPPENING AND SOMETHING