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>> trace: a surprise as you look at these pictures of kyiv, it could take hours to get outside the city. are you surprised there has not been another explosion in the kyiv, the capital city, for the better part by our count of an hour, an hour i have? what's the pause? what's next? >> i would have expected that, that's happy after what i expected. what putin wants to do is take out the military aspect. that's why they talk about cervical strikes, because they don't have any... they truly are related with the slavic heritage and all that. nobody wants to kill innocent people by any stretch. he just wants to preserve the security and take out the military capacity so he can then make his own guarantees on his
russia's ability to launch clues missiles, ballistic missiles, and airplanes and helicopters. there are reports coming across the wire that we are hearing right now is that ukrainians have shot down five russian jets and helicopter. here president zelenskyy is asking for nato military help and that's a very big step. that seems to be what he's asking for. >> starting for the anti-putin correlation. i think you are on the right path. we appreciate it. in the meantime we've been showing you these powerful images of thousands of people fleeing ukraine as russia draws closer to the capital city of kyiv. good morning to you again. >> good morning. can you imagine those people in those cars they are? they are terrified, trying to flee bombing. yet they are absolutely stuck. they are trying to get out to
the kyiv airport. if the ukrainians are able to hold off the russians and inflict a blood he knows have at least a victory there and booger up russian plan so to speak, that may give part to european leaders and may cause some problems internally in russia. it remains to be seen. the next few hours, the effectiveness of the initial onslaught is going to really tell us the story of the ark of this conflict. >> trace: you talk about the next few hours being critical and how long does it last? are we talking about the next few hours going into the next few weeks, or the next few hours going into the next several days? what's the timeline on when people feel like there might be some light at the end of this ukrainian-russian tunnel? >> there isn't any light in the very near future. if, in fact, the ukrainians are able to mount something of a defense in the russian initial strikes were not as effective as
outside the borders. >> look. first and foremost, we have to acknowledge the ukrainians by and large have been incredibly courageous in the face of unimaginable threats. and that i think is the real story here. president zelenskyy first and foremost really providing his countrymen the example. for that matter, the west an example of how you stand up to president putin. people are scared after having seen the attacks overnight and i think it is not surprising you see folks heading into their cars, heading to the west. obviously that is playing out right now on the streets of kyiv and elsewhere. let's not lose sight of the fact that ukrainians have demonstrated an incredible resolve and resilience.
the russians would like, and the ukrainians fought them off at least in some places, they bought them some some breathing room, then you are looking at more potentially of a protracted struggle. higher russian casualties. that will buck up western will, so to speak, and that'll make it possible if the west desires to bring in more defensive armament. if, in fact, the russians are more successful in neutralizing and basically decapitating the ukrainian military and neutralizing it and rolled right into kyiv whether it's an airlift operation at the airport which is ongoing right now -- there is conflict and shooting in and around the airport and that's really the hinge point here. if the russians are to settle here, you could see this being over and moscow installing a very friendly, family to moscow, regime in kyiv. >> trace: i think anyone in these meetings tomorrow, you talk about the e.u., i wonder if
regime change. it's a change regime, the decapitate this regime. the russian forces are going to have to come here to kyiv. that's what we are waiting for, that's what we expect. >> trace: as you look at the screen, live pictures, 10:04 a.m., coming west out of kyiv, it's bumper-to-bumper. looks like it'll come take a really long time to get these people to where they are going. we aren't saying all of them are fleeing but certainly some of them are and i wonder if you know, i don't know, i don't want to pin you in on this. if you know there are any policies in places like poland on what they would do, they would allow these people to come in, are they allowing refugees to come across the border, do we know any of that and has that been talked about? >> it has been talked about in multiple bordering nations be preparations underway to receive refugees and of course estimates of the amount of refugees if
failed to deter vladimir putin from launching a bloody campaign to seize ukraine on his own. it's an ever escalating conflict and efforts of diplomacy by the international community has failed so far to resolve. the coming hour, will be joined by our team of fox news correspondence. we have lucas tomlinson and steve harrigan on the ground in ukraine. kevin corke is standing by in washington with reaction from our nation's political leaders. we will get all of them. in the meantime, president zelenskyy and the ukrainian parliament, well... let's go back to steve harrigan whose life for us on the ground in kyiv. >> this is a city now declared by the government to be under martial law. they are telling people to stay in their homes. if you take a look at what's going on, not everyone is listening to that. some people are out and driving. other people are huddled in the subway. there were bombings in the
it's now midnight here in los angeles, 10:00 in the morning in kyiv. dark morning for people there and around the world. for months we were told that what was yet to come as nearly 200,000 russian forces massed along ukraine's southern border. u.s. intelligence provided a virtual play-by-play of how russia would advance. today, that intelligence proved to be spot on. it began last week with preliminary operations in separatist regions of ukraine. yesterday came the predicted cyber attack. then explosions as russia targeted ukraine's militaries and airfields from all sides. successful defense hits on russian military vehicles and warplanes. president biden is expected to unveil what the white house describes as "severe new sanctions against russia. but so far, threats indeed have
people saying they didn't want this. they wanted the life they are living where they are successful and now their lives are going to be changed in ways that are dramatic beer with us now retired u.s. army colonel great to see you again. i look at lucas tomlinson and he is saying, well, they think of lviv is a safe haven, 4-5 hours outside of kyiv. they think it's a safe haven and you wonder is any place right now in your estimation safe inside ukraine? >> here is one of the things, the physical limitations here. all the things we said that president biden told us, and this department, approximately 200,000 russian troops that were surrounding the area. that's not enough troops to even closely to take over the whole of ukraine. so they can't be going on to all these cities, just to give you an idea. they sent 60,000 into grozny a
in 1995 which is only 27,000. it would take almost all the troops they've had just for the one city and they aren't going to do that. if you are going to knock out some of the communications and radar systems, which apparently they've already done, they are going to bypass the cities to knock out the actual field armies, and then if they want to turn back to the cities, they have a chance to do that with almost nobody to defend them. >> trace: what i hear you saying, you think that this might be a fair fight then a lot of people give the ukrainians credit for? >> i don't think it's a fair fight. i don't think they have the capacity to defend. that's why even after this war is started, i'm still a strong advocate that they need to make a negotiated settlement to end this as quickly as possible. the authorities in kyiv, because they cannot win. they don't have the military capacity. they have big heart, they can fight hard, but if they fight