real intensification of ukrainian defenses. they have been pushing the russians back with some significant success. previously, the main area that russian forces had been focused on was the sort of north-northwest and west of the capital. last week they made a push to the east in a suburb, that push is continuing. the worry is that the ultimate goal is to try to encircle the city entirely. currently the south of the city is still largely open, but ukrainian authorities have said over and over again even in the last few days that they have no doubt about what the russian s objective is. it s to surround the city, starve the city, bombard the city and try to topple volodymyr zelenskyy s government. whether or not they will be successful in that is another matter altogether, john, because despite their superiority of their military on paper in terms of weaponry and manpower they
the bombardment of the capital city goes on the bombard of other cities around ukraine goes on all of this happening as the two sides prepare for further peace talks today those talks appear to have made a little bit of progress yesterday. the two sides saying they were breaking up for a pause in the talk to work on some details. that gives a glimmer of hope that when they resume today there could be some progress. but in the meantime, as you plainly see, the russian bombardment of the capital kyiv continues. this has been a fox news alert.n i m jonathan huntd in lviv, ukraine. now back to our regular programing positively with such important commitments as that the u.s. does not seek a newes n coldld war or to change china s system, nor will it oppose china through strengthening alliances, support taiwan independence or seeka. confrontation with china. chinaa then reference ukraine at
i remember the first time the ukrainians ran through open russia, and even as the ukrainian delegation was moving to the base. they started to bombard, kyiv, and some other cities. but when i say an important city, i really should not say so. because every city, every village is important. and one of the great things that happens is that the world and we mariupol, kharkiv, kyiv, and odessa for this matter, which are sometimes raised. they remain outside the public. thank you very much for joining us again tonight, and for your brave reporting from kyiv. we all hope you stay safe. i will do my best. thank you.
about 15 miles away from the capital city of kyiv. how concerning is that to you? what do you expect to unfold in the upcoming hours? well, look at mariupol. that is classic soviet tactics, surround, bombard, starve and then send your troops in. now kyiv is much, much larger but soldiers have a tendency to stick to their doctrine, stick to their tactics, so what we re seeing in mariupol morbidly it may be a preview of coming attractions. all right, general mark kimmitt, thank you for your time tonight. sure, pam. we re getting a lot of great viewer questions about the situation in ukraine. send me yours through twitter or instagram and i ll try to pose them to the experts joining me this evening. and coming up on this sunday, how a character that isn t even in the russian alphabet has become a symbol of
and face no resistance on the way really indicates that they fundamentally miscalculated what they were walking into. they have in theory the capability to attack and bombard and destroy kyiv but it is not necessarily something that is going to pay off for them. if anything, that type of an attack, that type of destruction is going to probably signal worse things back to the russian people than more of a limited campaign focused on areas that they consider to be more closely aligned to them from the beginning. meaning the south. i think a lot of the destruction from now on is going to be concentrated in that area. and a lot of the urban battles that real significant urban destruction is going to be happening there. would you assess that president zelenskyy is still a target for the russians? i think that s going to be