0 stay with the fox news channel for continuing coverage of putin's war on ukraine. stay tuned, the ingraham actle is up next, let not your heart be troubled. see you back here on monday. >> laura ingram: i'm laura ingraham and this is the ingram angle live from washington tonight. we were hoping for some progress in the negotiations between ukraine and russia. but sadly, the scenes from kyiv tonight are grim. remember that convoy outside of the city, it dispersed and now we know the plan was to set up multiple positions going to the ukrainian capital. our team on the ground is reporting the heaviest and most consistent shelling of this conflict. and there are fears that the russian military is beginning the final push to overwhelm ukraine. let's go live to kyiv where trey has the latest developments there. trey? >> good evening. we've heard the heaviest shelling in the up cantal of kyiv since this conflict began. most of it is taking place on the outskirts of city to the north and to the east. this is significant because that 40 mile long convoy was situated to the northwest of kyiv. it's since broke b up and redeployed to many of the neighboring towns according to the satellite images. we were in one of the towns outside of the city limits today looking a the destruction and devastation there. it is wide spread and it is significant. take a look. >> 63-year-old vitali is one of the many vulnerable residents stuck in the besieged ukrainian town. while he hears russian shells exploding nearby, he can't see the destruction they cause. >> i'm blind. i cannot see anything. i'm absolutely blind. >> with no shops or markets open, it's hard enough to get supplies. for vitali, it's nearly impossible. >> i hear some explosions, scared as everyone else. but what can i do? >> we're deep inside the ukrainian town. it's controlled by russian forces an it this moment and shelling different ukrainian positions in the distance trying to increase the territorial gains. >> it looks will like a ghost town. splintered buildings line the street, the aftermath of attacks on residential areas, evidence of indiscriminate shelling and air strikes. >> on the front lines, they're flattening neighborhoods part of the scorched campaign used by the russians to kill civilians and push people out of the way to move their troops forward and advance on the capital of kyiv. >> tonight, kyiv is bracing for more violence on the outskirts of the city. there's a real understanding the russian troops in the coming days could move in and fight many of the ukrainian forces who have hard defensive lines set up around the city. laura? >> trey, stay safe. thank you. >> and ukrainians' defense of kyiv thus far has been nothing short of heroic. but it's important to put russia's slow advance in context. now, back in 2003, it took u.s. and coalition forces three weeks to take baghdad in the iraq war. we're just entering the third week of this conflict. so what can we expect in the days ahead. senior fellow at the hudson institute and dr. robert spalding, retired air force brigadier general. peter, russia is encircling kyiv. we knew this would happen from the north and the east. so, is there some type of rough timeline for how long the ukrainian capital can actually stave them off? >> well, that's difficult to say. clearly with the way he has his forces, putin sees kyiv as a center of gravity in this campaign. he's telegraphing the same type of warfare he leveled in recent days and weeks against mariopole in that city with terrific images out of there may be coming to kyiv as well. entering the third week of the war. i will draw your viewers' attention to one additional team, the southern city of odessa yet to be faced with heavy warfare. it's ukraine's artery to the broader world, 60% to 70% of ukraine's trade travels through the black sea and odessa institutes the overwhelming majority of that. so, as vladimir putin makes major gains in the south, if he's able to cut that artery, no matter what develops in kyiv in the north, president zelensky amounts wholly dependent on western aid. it's difficult to say. but there are multiple theaters the ukrainians have to defend. if there's been low morale, even if they're having logistical problems, ukraine is defending on all fronts. >> general spalding, russian missiles hit western ukraine today. but the pentagon isn't sure of what to make of it, watch. >> our assessment is they struck a couple of airfields in the west. >> what it means, what it portends, where the russians are going with this, we don't really know. >> is that a marginal change or a reflective widening of their efforts? >> again, it's too soon to know. >> general, there's this thought that there was only kyiv they cared about. looks like that's the case. >> well, i think what they're trying to do is make sure that we don't have any resupplies going in to different areas to enable kyiv to stop being under siege. so, they're -- and this is exactly what we would be doing -- they're trying to prevent any resupply of kyiv. so their siege will be successful. >> well, at this point, when you -- you think about the sheer military might of russia, even with everything they did not expect with the herrism and bravery of the ukrainian people holding out, zelensky captured the world's attention, this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. a lot worse, correct? >> absolutely. we're talking about devastation in kyiv and a lot of major cities in ukraine and, you know, that's putin's goal is to essentially crush the -- the resolve of the ukrainian people just like he did in chechnya and just like he did in syria. >> now, peter, i want to bring up something that hasn't been discussed much today, which is a potential role we see for china to come to the rescue as an immediate yea tore here. so, it looks like in an interview with spanish newspaper el mun doe last week, the european union sworn policy chief said he was in favor of china mediating the peace talks. there is no al tern ty, he said. we can't be the mediators, that's clear. it can't be the u.s. either. who else? it has to be china? >> peter, i find this extremely concerning. >> i think that betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of china's position in the world stage and role in this conflict. it's true that the europeans and the united states stand on one side of this conflict. but russia is a stocking horse for china as well. russia and china are moving in alignment if not all together in an alliance. they issued a major statement when putin visited xi before the olympics and had a long multi-hour tete-a-tete with the chinese president talking about endless possibilities in their lines. they spoke to each other as the closest of friends on the world stage. so the mediator is absolutely silly. this is the point. i think it shows that joseph burrell, the head of the european union foreign service has little understanding of how the chinese behave on the international stage. >> laura ingram: thank you tonight. and while most americans stand behind ukraine's struggle to protect democracy, it was a few years ago that top ukrainian officials were working to undermine our own on behalf of democrats. as paul sperry reminds us, the improper if not illegal operation was run chiefly out of the ukrainian embassy in washington where officials worked hand in glo with activists and clinton campaign activist to attack the trump campaign. but it turns out the collusion predated the election, sperry reports. the coordination between ukrainian and democratic officials can be traced back to at least january, 2014 when top obama diplomats began engineering regime change in kyiv, installing the ukrainian leader that i could control. now, you might recognize some of the individuals involved in this scheme, chiefly jake sullivan and victoria newland, both of whom, now, served in the biden administration. now, new lapd just made headlines this week by testifying she was worried about ukrainian biolabs falling in russian hands. january 27, 2014, on the phone to the ambassador to ukraine plotting regime change in the country. >> start to glue it, help the u.n. to glue it. and, you know, the eu. >> and, exactly, we have to do something to make it stick together because you can be sure if it does start to gain altitude, the russians will work behind the scenes to try to torpedo it. >> when i wrote the note, sullivan came back to me saying you need biden. and i said probably tomorrow for an atta boy and to get the deeds to stick. so, biden is willing. >> as paul sperry notes, newland's involvement wasn't limited to phone calls. she was on the ground in kyiv organized protests against the pro russian government. it paid off, that regime was overthrown and a pro western government took his place. the ukrainians paid the favor by working hand in glove with the democrats to dig up dirt on trump and sway the 2016 election to hillary clinton. that's what they wanted. joining me now is paul sperry, investigative reporter for real clear politics. what does it tell us about ukraine as it is in our stance as it was today. >> and, by the way, good evening, laura. there's a lot of politics behind this crisis and it's important to put it in historic context, starting in 2014 when obama appointed biden as his point man in ukraine. and his team of advisors and diplomats engineers a regime change in kyiv and installed essentially a client state for democrats there. and as you said, they were caught on tape trying to push out the president at the time because they felt that he was too friendly with russia. victoria newland who you mentioned as well, she was over there handing out sandwiches to the rioters in that revolution. and then, of course, putin took that u.s. meddling as a threat. and within months, he was invading crimea. so, that's the back story up until 2016, and, so, then in 2016, biden's people helped hillary weaponize ukraine to try to derail trump's campaign. and ukraine went along with it because they were getting billions of dollars in aid from biden and they honestly thought that democrats would do a better job of protecting them from russia. but that was a bad debt -- >> laura ingram: that was wrong. >> that was a bad -- and that has tragically backfired. >> laura ingram: i want to get to another part of what you wrote about christopher steele. christopher steele of the dossier fame, provided newland with written reports on the ukrainian crisis in russia. and between the spring of 2014 and 2016, she received some 120 reports on ukraine and russia. from steele. now why was steele providing these reports for a state department official about ukraine and russia, paul? explain that? >> steele's involvement goes way back. he was also informing on the ukrainian president to the fbi at the same time. and then providing these documents, these memos and reports similar type of dossier, which we now know that his dossier has been discredited on trump and so-called russia conclusion. but he was very influential to what was going on with the regime change in ukraine at the time. and was whispering in the ear of newland and the state department. >> back in 2014, people think -- 2016 phenomenon. this predated all of that. so she actually defended jen psaki, newland's regime change plotting in ukraine, watch. >> no secret that ambassador piet and assistant secretary newland have been working with the government of ukraine with the opposition and civil society leaders to support the efforts and shouldn't be a surprise if at any point there have been discussions about recent points and offers and what is happening on the ground. remains the case that it's up to the ukrainian people themselves to decide their future. >> laura ingram: it was eight years ago. astounding how key biden officials were connected to this effort. old home team here. >> the whole cast of characters. you have biden, blinkin, newland, michael carpenter is back. jake sullivan, of course. and these are the people that led the ukrainians in to this crisis and now they're having a new line to get them out of the crisis. >> laura ingram: paul, is there one super talented individual in the list that you just rattled off of individuals? any -- >> well, jake sullivan has the most influence. he's the master of disaster in afghanistan. >> laura ingram: yeah, i mean, this is not jv. this is not -- this is not pee-wee league. i don't think they make it to the field in most teams, most sports scenarios. >> it seems like amateur hour. >> laura ingram: oh, ridiculous. paul, great to see you tonight. an important piece that explains how we got here. >> americans agree, they are willing to even sacrifice themselves by paying more at the pump. >> i think it's also true that the world needs to be prepared for a very long, difficult road ahead. >> there will be costs as well here in the united states. >> as biden and his team demand that we sacrifice, it's worth asking, to what end? how much suffering are middle class americans expected to endure now. knowing that we have untapped resources here to address the problems with energy. joining me now is jd vance, republican, ohio senate candidate. j.d., you noted it's one thing to support sanctions as a punitive response to invasion. it's quite another to ask americans to support them without knowing what the end goal in europe is given the support that russia got through the nordstream involvement alone. >> exactly right, laura. republicans, we talked a lot about the fact that biden is weak and we have the ukraine crisis we have. and it turns out that he's an idiot. the one thing you don't want to do in a global commodity market that is controlled by russia is drive the costs higher and higher. and, so biden acts tough by be not buying russian oil. but in reality, we're not producing our own oil, that's driving the cost of oil on the world-wide market higher and higher which means who benefits, right? who gets richer from that? vladimir putin gets richer from that. i'm kind of sick, if i'm honest with you, of the regime of the biden regime asking americans to sacrifice when we have our own oil at home, we have our own resources at home. they just refuse to exploit them. it's one thing to ask americans to take it on the chin. it's another thing to do it when it's not necessary, right? we don't benefit from this. and i don't think the ukrainians do either. >> j.d. it becomes like a -- they're sanctioning russia, but with their incompetence or their purposeful radicalism, combination of the two, they're punishing americans. and they have been punishing americans for 14 straight months, nonstop. this is just one more type of punishment. they don't want americans to travel anywhere they want any time they want. they never liked that. they liked european's gas prices more than ours. and they want to bring it back to global equity and even it all out. i really believe it's just like with the lockdowns, they preferred people staying in and ordering uber eats. it saves the planet and no one has that pesky freedom stuff to deal with. >> americans were asked to sacrifice a lot, sacrifice for covid, our freedoms, our children's psychological health. and now we're being asked to sacrifice when it's not necessary for us to accomplish any american objective. you have to ask yourself, at what point does the biden administration stop asking americans to sacrifice and i enable us to live good lives in our own country. at the end oaf the day, we need to be focusing on our own problems, biden talks about sacrificing for a country 6,000 miles away. what about southern border, what about the leading cause of death being fentanyl overdoses among 18 to 45-year-olds. there are a lot of problems, if he wants to sack i r fies, he should focus on the problems at home. >> laura ingram: he does urge us to spend billions and billions, as do republicans defending ukraine's borders. we found that 59,011 deportations were the lowest total since 1995, okay, we've got that, we have the fentanyl pouring in. we have west point cadet in the hospital tonight because of fentanyl-laced some type of drug that they were taking parting in horrific -- coupling the critical condition, tens of thousands of americans have died because of fentanyl. all from china. we're still playing this game on, you know, globalization and not decoupling from china. it's obscene. >> yeah, all from china ships to the mexican border. you're right. we're still dependent on chinese to manufacture things. we've done sanctions on the russians but we don't touch the chinese reliance. the fact we rely on them for so many things. sanction the chinese if we go after the russians, the chinese are a bigger threat. you know what's so sick about this, laura? republicans refuse to give dodged trump $4 billion for a border wall for four years, they gave joe biden $14 billion for ukrainian aid in a week. what does that say about the priorities even when congressional republicans refuse to fund their own border wall but fine with sending tons of noun a country 6,000 miles away. >> laura ingram: the military industrial complex, isn't that what eisenhower called it? >> he did. >> laura ingram: they don't make as much money on the border. j.d., great to see you tonight. now back to ukraine where we get reports on the first russian missile strikes on the western part of the country. greg palkot is standing by in the city of lviv near the polish border with the latest developments. greg, what's the situation tonight? >> that's absolutely right, laura, the war got a little wider and more brutal on friday. two air bases hit in western ukraine. that's exactly where we are right now it's thought these sites are playing a role to get crucial military aid to the military. they are not far from the poland border. we figured as russian missile strikes were aimed at constructing all that, maybe even trying to cut it off. there's a first ever attack of the city in the center of the country. they're thinking that city, if it was taken by russians, the ukraine military overall could be split in two. and that would further lessen, obviously, their effectiveness. this as the siege at the capital city of kyiv, that's tightening. what we have there, laura, is that the column of russian troops and armor we've been talking about literally for weeks now is beginning to disperse and set into shooting positions the population of the city is getting ready. and the flow of refugees from ukraine, the horror of the war, it's now up to 2.5 million people who have left the country and we saw hundreds coming out today as we came back in. as the talk of cease-fires and humanitarian corridors continues, really to no effect. back to you. >> greg, thank you. going to continue to bring you the breaking developments out of ukraine as they come in. but, now, soft on china, tough on america. that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura ingram: so, as we were just talking about with jd, china is blanketing our country with fentanyl killing tens of thousands of americans every day as it imprisons hundreds of thousands of muslims in re-education camps, and it jails dissidents and forces christians to go underground. american ceos keep quiet so they can get rich there. jpmorgan's jamie die mon, tim cook, jamie bastion, they all come to mind. but these same individuals and many more like them have had no problems condemning perceived inequities in our own countries, especially in republican states. indeed, it's a right of spring that elites express outrage and moral indignation about something happening in a red state. last april, it was the manufactured controversy about georgia's then new election integrity law. ceos expressed a disapproval on social media. and the virtue signaling buffoons at major league baseball actually moved the all-star game from atlanta to