“Putin is a political animal who can sense fear. And when he does, he becomes more aggressive.” Dmytro Kuleba tells me Ukraine’s survival requires its allies to “firmly believe that Ukraine's victory is attainable.”

“Putin turns to me and in perfect English he says, ‘I love the Beatles.’”
Acclaimed photographer Platon reveals the stories behind his images of the most influential and polarizing figures of our era. #TheAmanpourHour airs 11aET Saturdays on CNN

“He calmly looked at me and he said, ‘I am the storm.’” The renowned photographer Platon tells me about his ominous photo shoot with Donald Trump, before he became president.

“I was brought up to fear this man, and that just destroyed my defenses immediately.”
From the Amanpour Archive this week, as South Africa celebrates 30 years of democracy, my 2014 conversation with Nelson Mandela’s private secretary Zelda la Grange ©™✌

Tune in tomorrow to see the full interview with Dmytro Kuleba

.Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, tells Walter Isaacson how U.S. aid to Ukraine will change the military and psychological dynamics of the war. “The Russians are… suddenly facing a much steeper uphill path,” she says.

“Love is a force – and when it’s unleashed, it can actually have a powerful effect in the real world.”

After surviving a horrific assassination attempt, Salman Rushdie writes not just about death, but about life and love in his new memoir Knife. I spoke with him about it.

As the US approves a major aid package for Ukraine and the UK announces a 2.5% defense spending target, UK shadow foreign secretary David Lammy says “we must stand with Ukraine… Biden is absolutely right: when America is strong and allies are strong, the free world is strong.”

It’s the world’s biggest democratic exercise. Nearly a billion eligible voters in India go to the polls over the course of six weeks, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a third term. Will Ripley explains what’s at stake.

“Fighting for freedom makes us feel everything deeper, everything more emotionally.” Ukrainian maestro Oksana Lyniv, who leads Metropolitan Opera’s Turandot, tells me how her passion for conducting is shaped by the war in her homeland.

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On the show this week: Britain’s ex-spy chief on the chain reaction in the Middle East, Putin’s propaganda parrots in Congress, and America’s vital counterweight to China charts its political future.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk tells Hari about a 14-year-old girl from Mariupol that Matviichuk learned of while investigating Russian war crimes in her home country. Oleksandra Matviichuk hari sreenivasan

Melanie Ward who returned from Gaza last week: “One of the most disturbing things is that doctors are having to reuse medical equipment. External fixators, which hold together fractured bones, are having to be removed from dead people and reused on living patients.”

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“The thing that's always amazed me is when you try to explore different things, people have a problem with it, and I don't understand it because there's a natural curiosity about music.” Terence Blanchard on Beyoncé’s country takeover and how music can be a unifier.

“Journalists have been attacked without… justification. They must at least be afforded protection as they are doing their noble job. They are humans before being journalists.”

Al Jazeera English correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum has spent over six months reporting from the ground…

A trailblazer and a true journalist, through and through. Remembering Robert MacNeil, the PBS legend, who has died at the age of 93.

“In the coming days, Donald Trump is going to have to face one of the things that he has feared the most, which is a jury of his peers, with a criminal trial, with regular processes.”

Fmr Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal walks through what to expect of this historic trial.