0 biden has spoken with the president of poland. we are expected to hear from him at any moment. this as we learn vice president harris will be visiting poland on monday. also secretary of state antony blinken will hold a news conference in brussels. thank you so much, brit hume, for joining us on "outnumbered." "america reports" starts right now. >> has to be separated. >> we got border and then had to say good-bye and he had to go back. >> john: fox news alert to kick off "america reports" this friday as ukrainians fight for their survival and heart wrenching moments from the battlefield. john roberts in washington, hi again, sandra. >> sandra: hello to you. sandra smith in new york. fox news learning moments ago the white house will be sending vice president kamala harris to poland monday to meet with a bipartisan congressional delegation and secretary of state antony blinken is in brussels. he will be speaking moments from now. we'll have his remarks for you. all this happening after meeting with nato allies on moscow's invasion. this after a heavy artillery set a building on fire at europe's largest nuclear plant located in europe. in ukraine. that briefly raised concerns of a radiation release but the head of the u.n. atomic watchdog says there has been no such leak. l>> john: camera-equipped drones capturing the scale of devastation, a smoldering apartment building destroyed by russian airstrikes, as they make significant gains in southern ukraine. the sound of gunfire resonating in the port city of mariupol where constant fighting is underway, plunging the city into darkness, knocking out most phone service and raising the prospect of food and water shortages. >> sandra: try to cut resistance to cut the country off from the sea. another round of talks yielded a tentative agreement to set up safe corridors inside ukraine to evacuate citizens and deliver humanitarian aid across the border. washington to kyiv, we find trey at this hour. trey. >> sandra, good afternoon. fighting erupted overnight at a nuclear power plant in enerhodar, ukraine, a city in the southern part of the country. officials say no radiation leaked amid the battle, it is significant as this is europe's largest nuclear power plant. russian forces have seized the plant, the incident left the international community on edge with concerns clashes were taking place so close to radioactive material. the russians in control, it supplies ukraine with the 25% of the energy. zelenskyy had this to say about the attack. >> russian people, after we fought together in 1986 against the chernobyl catastrophe consequences. you must tell your authorities, go to the streets and say you want to live, that you want to live on earth without radioactive contamination. >> the shelling and gunfire at a nuclear power plant comes as russian forces move closer to the ukrainian capital. tanks and soldiers crossing into the kyiv region. intense air campaigns against areas just outside of kyiv with schools and residential buildings hit in the past 24 hours. the shelling is often indiscriminate and comes today as president putin of russia commissioned a ferry, and he spoke about the situation saying russian has no ill intentions to its neighbors. scenes tell a different advisory. president putin saying there are no ill intentions but yet civilians are dying in the streets of ukraine. residential areas being hit. as we talked about the southern sport cities, mariupol surrounded as ukrainian forces are being closed in on. back to you. sandra, john. >> john: trey, i noticed on the map the russian forces out of crimea are moving to the northwest, that is right up the highway from where they were in kherson and it's just a little ways away from odesa. looks like they are travelling the main roads to cut off odesa. >> absolutely, it's the plan of the russians to move forward from crimea, they have gone through kherson, the city in the south, and they are going to be able to take over the cities pretty quickly once they move more forces in. what they are trying to do is establish a clear front line here in the south. it will give them not only a supply line but also easy movement of russian forces. from there, experts believe they will try to make their way north and connect with the forces who are working their way down from places like kharkiv. that will take many, many days. but it's significant because they already have the russian-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country. connect those with the troops north of kherson, they'll be able to control a large portion of eastern and southeastern ukraine as they continue with the invasion. >> sandra: as you stand there reporting live from kyiv you have been on the ground there from the very beginning as we have seen and heard and seen various reports in recent days, harder and harder for journalists to continue to core the war. a glimpse into your day today and how it is to hang in there and continue to tell these people's stories. >> look, our coverage continues around the clock. there are millions of ukrainians who without journalists in the country would be left voiceless. so, it is dangerous to be here but it's important to stay to tell their story. they are the true story here and as they continue to try to simply survive amid this chaos and invasion, the bottom line and the message from so many ukrainians, they plan to stay and defend their country but don't want this to be happening. they were living in peace, this capital city of kyiv, a population of nearly 3 million people. it was bustling. got here, bars and restaurants and cafes and museums. today it is totally shut down, there are no shops open, checkpoints every single block, and russian forces miles away. sandra, john. >> sandra: trey from kyiv, thanks very much. we'll check back in with you shortly. meanwhile, the u.s. continues to move forces towards europe's eastern flank in response to the invasion and to avoid any misunderstanding between russia and the u.s. military, the pentagon set up a direct communication link with moscow, known as a deconfliction line. but first, jennifer. >> we have new information about how some of the training and equipment the u.s. and allies have had an impact and slowed the russia military advance, especially north of the capital where the convoy has been stuck for days. ukrainian forces blew up the bridge at the front of the convoy. a u.s. defense official says the blowing up of that bridge by ukrainians north of the city has had a big impact on halting the convoy. we spoke to the senior u.s. defense official who is overseeing the delivery of weapons and security assistance to the military, $60 million package was transferred to ukraine by november of last year as concerns about russia grew. in late december the white house authorized $200 million worth of military aid and that aid by the end of january, that had all been delivered, we are told. in terms of the $350 million in u.s. military aid announced last friday, we are now told $240 million worth of it, about 70% to include anti-armor capabilities, have arrived in ukraine. the rest should be coming in a matter of days. u.s. defense officials have been very impressed with how ukrainians are fielding these weapons, a real impact. these are weapons taken from existing stockpiles of u.s. weapons not bought on the open market. the process to get these weapons normally takes months, we are told, given all the bureaucracy, but "we have compressed the process to hours and days," that according to the senior u.s. defense official who speaks with ukrainians every day to coordinate the weapons shipments. and also extensive training, we are told, extensive training program for the ukrainians on this equipment, including what was described by this defense official as just in time training in december, in the december time frame, so they were already familiar how to use the weapons, especially the anti-tank missiles. remember the florida national guard and operations trainers in ukraine until hours before russia invaded, some of them had moved out to lviv and were continuing the training up to the last moment. total u.s. assistance since 2014 to ukraine, $3 billion. $1 billion of that has come in the last year alone. we also have more information on the deconfliction phone line, it's staffed at stuttgart, germany, and under the pursue of todd walters, act as a direct line, and told by the senior defense official it was set up march 1, tested a few days ago and the russians did answer. >> sandra: we are watching for the secretary of state blinken holding a press conference, and also john kirby live from the pentagon. jen griffin, thank you very much. see you shortly. >> john: come over here to the touch screen and bring in retired general david patraeus, former c.i.a. director. any time zelenskyy or the ukrainian parliament are on television they talk about the no fly zone, put nato aircraft across the skies of ukraine like this, declaring it the area where no russian air assets could fly. kurt volker suggested yesterday perhaps a no fly zone maybe here in the western part of the country, sort of west of kyiv as a humanitarian corridor, but the ukrainians want it across the entire country. where do you come down on the idea, general. >> you have to enforce a no fly zone and that means u.s. aircraft, we are not certain the countries whose air fields we may logically use would support this. you have to keep in mind, remarkable nato unity, something we have not seen since before the end of the cold war and i'm not sure the answer of the question can we fly out of this country or that country would give us theens a we want. again, the whole problem here is starting at the very top in nato, in washington, and in other capitals, there is a real concern about having a direct confrontation with russia that could expand this conflict and turn into world war iii. that's the issue. now, clearly as the continued horrific attacks, barbaric attacks, the crazy, stupid attacks around a nuclear generating station take place, as we see civilian casualties mount and civilian infrastructure struck indiscrim nately, russia is violating the rules of engagement we work very hard to follow, we make mistakes but we were trying hard to follow the rules established, there is going to be understandably more and more concern. i had this conversation with your colleague martha yesterday and look, it is understandable you and i and others on the edges of this say we must do something. the problem is if you do something and you get into a direct confrontation with russia, you may come to regret that. so right now the leaders of nato, keep in minds, the leaders of nato, it's not the secretary general, it is the body, the 30 heads of government of the countries that comprise nato, they clearly have been very, very cautious, arguably prudent in this regard, though our humanitarian impulses, obviously, lead us to want to do more than it is that we are doing right now. that's understandable, but those are the very top, get paid to take the very tough decisions that they have in this case. >> general, let me ask you about what's going on in the south. forces out of crimea are working on a couple of axis here. gone through kherson, and basically following the road out of kherson, to lead them into odesa and get behind it and cut it off. the same time, forces are moving up to mariupol, bombarded, almost completed the land bridge to donetsk, and six reactors, a big facility, the biggest in all of europe. i know you talked about the recklessness of the russian forces attacking about you now that they have control of it what is the strategic asset of this for russia and what could the potential outcome of their occupation of it be? >> well, it could be to turn out the lights, if they so choose to do so, to stop generating power, keep it all working, but stop generating power using the engineers inside to do what they want them to do at gunpoint. but you are right to identify on the map these two offensives, one going west to try to isolate as you say odesa and watch and be wary about an amphibious assault, and then east, to correct to the donbas, controlled by the russian supported separatists and that would separate it from the sea and the two major ports. mariupol and then odesa on the black sea. that would be very significant because it would cut ukraine off from that particular shipping route. it's very important to the ukraine economy and now they would be completely dependent what comes in by land from the west. so, that's one very much to watch. i think that the resistance in odesa will be quite -- quite significant. i think that's where you'll see the ukrainians try to draw a line. once again, we'll see what russia has done in other cases when there is this very effective and couragegous and determined fighting by the ukrainian forces and citizens and they will just back off and begin to destroy the city piece by piece. that's certainly what has happened in kharkiv, it's tragic, it's certainly what has happened, beginning to happen, of course, in kyiv, a much bigger city, nearly 3 million people and russian as we have discussed before has a history of doing this, in aleppo and syria, and chechnya, but reporters like trey, the intrepid, courageous reporters on the ground, and tightening the screws and economic and financial and diplomatic sanctions and other creative ways of supporting the ukrainians without putting our soldiers, air, marines directly in combat with russians. >> john: even impossible for russia to get a full hold on. general, a minute left, the flow of arms coming into ukraine, obviously flowing in from latvia, lithuania and estonia into poland because nothing is flying in now, coming up across from germany, through to poland and poland by land into ukraine. can we resupply ukraine quickly enough to allow it to remain effective against russian forces and what happens if russia says you know what, the arms shipments coming in, those are targets and we are going to attack those. >> they have not shown a particular ability with air power so far. they have not even grounded the ukrainian air force. they can bomb indiscrimnately and they have been doing that. you heard jennifer griffin's report, nearly 300 million in the last week or two, and i'm quite confident we can continue to do that. the question, john when they encircle kyiv entirely, if that happens, and perhaps ultimately just the weight, the quantity of russian forces has a quality of its own, even the quality overall is pretty marginal, that's going to be the concern. can you still get them through to the cities that are besieged by russia, in particular kyiv and kharkiv, and odesa as well. >> john: general patareus, thank you, we'll speak with you again soon. appreciate it. >> pleasure, john. >> sandra: brand-new video seen for the very first time right now out of ukraine. brian on the breaking news for us. >> new video out of the russian parliament which has voted unanimously, 401 to 0 to enact a brand-new law that makes it punsishable, 3 to 15 years for spreading fake information about the military war that is happening in ukraine. this is a major step forward for -- major escalation by russian authorities and vladimir putin to go after dissent there in the country. at the same time, reuters is now reporting, sandra, that russia has blocked facebook inside of russia. this is coming from russia's communications agency, they have cited 26 cases what they call discrimination against russian media and information resources by facebook since october of 2020. again, this also comes at the same time we have seen the top independent radio station and top independent television station in russia have stopped operations after threats from russian authorities. talking about whether or not the pressure in russia would be enough to force putin's hand but he is clamping down dissention, punishable up to 15 years in prison for anyone who spreads what they deem as fake information of the war, they call in russia a special military operation. sandra. >> sandra: brian, we'll get back to you. refugees are pouring into poland fleeing the russian inflation. >> we were driving for six days to get to the polish border. during this time we were basically living in the car. many people are going and like the roads are closed, like jammed six days, nonstop, barely not sleeping, you know. so yeah, we got to the border and then we had to say good-bye and he had to go back. >> connell mcshane reporting live for us. he is there in poland at a train station, connell, what's happening there now? >> well, there are people coming in every few hours, a train will come in from ukraine and what we have sensed, and i think we can pass along to you, when you read out numbers, 2 million leaving ukraine or 700,000 coming into poland, what does a refugee crisis or humanitarian crisis really look like? this family has been a few hours, marissa is here with her grandmother, mom is here to speak with other people who spent time on the train with them, they are from kharkiv, hit so far, little dogs had a long trip with them as well. she picks up her own story when they all arrived in the capital city of kyiv. listen to this. >> when we went to kyiv we then started to like full bomb and then when we came to the railway station in kyiv it started to bomb from the sky and it was really scary. just came here and bomb exploded something. >> you saw that happen. >> yeah. >> at the railway station. >> yeah. >> wow. >> the rockets, they, like near the railway station they were falling, and it was really scary. cannot explain how it was. we were praying every second that we were in kyiv. >> they finally got out of there, praying every second they were in kyiv, there's the dog, he's had a long few days and so has the entire family, but they are here now, get on another train and head to a different part of europe later today. that's what we are hearing guys over and over again, so, you know you are going to hear more of that, just as a challenge for the european union as we have been talking about throughout the week. the numbers will grow. this is just one family. 1.2 million total, 700,000 in poland, a war still raging and everybody predicting the numbers are only going to multiply in the weeks ahead, and so will the stories like you just heard. john, sandra. >> john: one of the reasons there are not more people across the border, in eastern cities of kharkiv, and others, it's impossible to get to western ukraine and across the border into poland. but if the ceasefire in certain areas takes hold and the humanitarian corridors are opened up, we could see hundreds of thousands more people, if not millions fleeing suddenly for that border with poland. >> exactly. it's a really good point. if you think about this particular family, for example, that's three days at least, right, since they left. they are from kharkiv, so they left, they make it to kyiv and then they finally make it here and the other thing we heard, we were speaking to someone else who made it here yesterday from lviv, in the western part of the country where it's been relatively safe and what she also added to us, adds to what you are saying, that part of the country is getting really crowded. it's almost impossible to get on a train in lviv, so many people that barely made it out of the east before the fighting got terrible, not all the way across the border but moved west. so you have the people caught in the east, and the west who have not made it here, and the third group, the ones who did make it out, and that group is above a million, think about that, in just a week. >> sandra: connell, we are taking in the images you continue to bring us, the babies behind you, the strollers, dog, the little beagle we have all been re