0 2 1/2 weeks ago. gillian, keep an eye on joe manchin yesterday talking about the defense production act. pipeline in west virginia that he could get going now more than 300 miles called the mountain valley pipeline and the talk about energy it may become relevant. have a wonderful weekend and we'll follow news as it goes. thank you. here is julie. "the faulkner focus" >> catastrophic devastation in ukraine. the civilian slaughter campaign getting more intense by the day as russian forces once again set their sights on the capital. i'm julie banderas. thank you for joining us this friday. i'm in for harris today. more than two weeks since rush why crossed the border to ukraine. in that time putin's army has failed to topple the government in kyiv. they've resorted to terrorizeing innocent civilians. in central ukraine the shoe factory was obliterated. mariupol, 1300 people have been killed. that number likely to rise. meantime kyiv is bracing for the arrival of that massive russian military convoy. new satellite images appear to show the convoy fanning out into towns along the city outskirts. last hour president biden calling for the u.s. to take new steps to punish putin. >> president biden: revoking pntr for russia will make it harder for russia to do business with the united states. and doing it in unison with other nations, that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the russian he con that that's already suffering badly from our sanctions. putin is an aggressor, the aggressor. putin must pay the price. >> retired general jack keane is standing by with analysis and fox team coverage this hour. mike tobin is live in western ukraine and alex hogan across the border in poland. but first we'll start it off with trey yingst joining us live in the capital. trey. >> good morning. russian forces are now within 10 miles of kyiv. according to these new satellite images the long convoy to the northwest of the city that includes tanks and artillery units has now dispersed and redeployed. the troops have taken up new positions in nearby towns and tree lines. the units are moving into firing position with the capital city in their sights russian forces are destroying lives and homes in their path and we returned from the front lines and have this report. >> 63-year-old is one of the many vulnerable residents stuck in a ukraine town that is besieged. he hears shells exploding nearby he can't see the destruction they cause. >> i am absolutely blind and can't see anything. >> with no shops or markets open it is hard to get supplies. for him it's nearly impossible. >> i'm scared as everyone else. what can i do? >> right now we're deep inside the ukrainian town that is partially controlled by russian forces and shelling different ukraine positions in the distance. trying to increase their gains. splintered buildings line the streets the aftermath on russian attacks on residential areas. indiscriminate shelling and air strikes. on the front lines between two towns russian forces are flattening neighborhoods. this is part of a scorched earth campaign used by the russians to kill civilians and push people out of the way so they can move their troops forward and ultimately advance on the capital of kyiv. ukrainian officials are accusing russia today of striking neighboring belarus. those officials say russia will blame ukraine and then try to drag belarus into this war. julie. >> gillian: excellent reporting. thank you very much. retired four star general jack keane and chairman at the university for the study of war joins me now. you have an update for us. i want to start with the russia's campaign to seize kyiv and force the current dear of ukraine's government. you say it will be a hard fight. that is given the fact that ukraine has had over two weeks to prepare an urban warfare favors the defender. this could take some time. do you have an update on that? >> yeah, most definitely. what's happened is what we thought would happen a long time ago. the combat forces are approaching the city of kyiv and they are now on the outskirts. one formation is on the northeast side and one on the northwest side. both in contact within the last 24 to 36 hours. likely consolidating and preparing to move south and begin the encirclement of the city. the first time a serious attempt at that will take place. i believe the fighting just to encircle the city and bring down the artillery will be challenging. two brigades from the ukraine military defending the routes and a fight all the way down to the south. secondly, if they're able to encircle the city what they'll do is open fire with their artillery. these are area attack weapons to pummel and hammer the city itself and as you mentioned in the introduction, this certainly is part of their way of war and they will also use aerial come barredment and there are some air defense systems in the city. the russians will be cautious about the use of that. nonetheless all three will be used to hammer that city. they will try, julie, to get capitulation from the government zelenskyy et al as opposed to entering with their combat troops. if they don't get a capitulation, the likely outcome they will not. they will enter with their combat troops and at that point this will be a very tough fight. urban warfare is the toughest warfare there is. it favors the defense and as you mentioned, yes, they have had over two weeks to prepare for this outcome. this will be neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block and building by building if the russians commit their forces to go into the city. >> putin is raging now. he had no idea of the offensive -- the defensive military operations on the ground in ukraine had no idea they would be met with such resistance. he rages on over fsp failures and he reportedly fired eight generals for failing to complete the task of taking ukraine in days of ukrainian resistance caught the kremlin offguard. how much fight do the ukrainians have left this them? >> it's hard to tell. i think they have a lot of fight in them. even if putin is able to collapse the regime -- the ukrainians are going to fight for as long as it takes to get the russians out of their country. russia doesn't have enough troops to occupy this country over a protracted. they aren't aware of any generals being fired. i think that may be a misreport you are using that we got from another source. but here is what we do know. it took some time to get information to putin about the details of what was going on on the battlefield likely because the people that surround him were holding back that information. he has it all now. he has a clear picture from what i understand and you are right, he is frustrated and angry as a result of it. no wonder. his forces have performed margin allly at best and underestimated the ukraine military and people. >> the forces are begging for their lives saying they have no backup. what are we do here? calling family members crying and saying we shouldn't be here. president zelenskyy says putin is bluffing again with his nuke threats. he says this i think that the threat of nuclear war is a bluff. he tells a newspaper. he says it's one thing to be a murderer. it is another to commit suicide. putin's threat shows a weakness. you only threaten the use of nuclear weapons when nothing else is working. i'm sure that russia is aware of the catastrophic consequences of any attempt to use nuclear weapons. >> well, i don't think i would get into a direct discussion with putin if i was zelenskyy. there is enough emotion and rhetoric out there as it is particularly on a subject dealing with nuclear weapons and how catastrophic that would be. putin has got to understand the international position and the position of the united states and nato that there are consequences for the introduction of any kind of weapons of mass destruction. and while we don't have to have red lines i agree with the trump administration, they did away with the obama red lines. i do think we have to be clear about all options are on the table and everything changes if weapons of mass destruction are used by putin. but stay away from the back and forth emotional rhetoric. i think it would be best. i have a lot of toleration for zelenskyy letting off some steam from time to time. he is entitled it to. >> he has earned it. general jack keane. always great to see you. thank you so much. americans are feeling the pain at the pump. boy, at the grocery store, you name it. and the white house seems to be keeping to shift the blame. watch. >> nothing has been more politicized than inflation. just let's harken back to all the things we've been through. first it was transitory, then inflation is good, then we went to corporate greed, now we're at putin. >> yeah, those record gas prices and soaring inflation are now all putin's fault. that same inflation the white house has called temporary for months. fox business larry kudlow in "focus" next. veteran homeowners, need cash? 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