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Urban combat, what does that mean? what does that entail? >> it is absolutely the the most brutal form of warfare that is. it is house to house, block to block, half the city to half the city. it is incredibly manpower intensive. very, very high casualties. takes an awful long time. and if you have civilians in that city as well, that's just multiplies the problem immensely. >> we have pictures, we had pictures a second ago of tanks that were operating in irpin, the suburb, next to kyiv right there. there are the images right there. these were the tanks taking up positions yesterday. what kind...

Ratios. if you are in the military, you want a 3-1 ratio. you get into a city fight, you are talking 6-10 to 1. block to block, building by building, and he could lose this fight. this is the fight for the survival of ukraine. if he loses here, putin loses the war because that's what happened in world war ii. >> john: talk about the siege of kyiv, is he going to turn that into a massive version of mariupol? which has been decimated. the city has not been leveled, per se, but it has been so unbelievably damaged years to come back, and the impact to the civilian population, targets like the mate...

Ultimately, if they want to control the city, have to go in and control it? and what would that look like? >> if the city surrenders, they would put people in there, change how the government is so on and so forth. they would be much less than trying to put soldiers in there fighting from block to block. here's an example. imagine being a platoon of 30 or 40 guys trying to fight through this area, where if this was just a normal parking lot, it would be man to man. but the fighters there have the advantage. they're using down here a sniper position, appear sniper positions, they're probably dr...

Trustees will be remembered for centuries. but we start this hour with fox news chief correspondent and our co-anchor jonathan hunt. jonathan, as it enters a day twenty seven there we could hear sirens just moments ago. yeah, we had the sirens sounding just a couple of minutes ago. they just stopped now and i have not heard any subsequent explosions. the focus really in terms of fighting is on cities in the south and east of ukraine right now, in particular down in mariupol, the southern port city, we have talked about so much the level of destruction that when you look at these videos is real...

Just to get more forces into kyiv. what's happened is they've realized they don't actually have the combat power or the will to take that capital city, so they've had to regroup and change strategy. i don't think the russians truly understand how difficult this fight is going to be inside the cities. that's why they're making an excuse for being outside. it's very difficult to fight block to block in a city. pamela, i remember fighting through a city in iraq. we were called in to actually support an american special forces unit that had been hit hard by -- by iraqi insurgents. we fund ourselve...